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The acronym HCPCS originally stood for HCFA Common Procedure Coding System, a medical billing process used by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). Prior to 2001, CMS was known as the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA). HCPCS was established in 1978 to provide a standardized coding system for describing the specific ...
In fact, Medicare-approved hospice providers are required to provide 13 months of grief support to the intimate network of a loved one in hospice, says Tucci. This is often in the form of support ...
Exterior of an inpatient hospice unit. In the United States, hospice care is a type and philosophy of end-of-life care which focuses on the palliation of a terminally ill patient's symptoms. These symptoms can be physical, emotional, spiritual or social in nature. The concept of hospice as a place to treat the incurably ill has been evolving ...
Gentiva Health Services is a provider of home health care, hospice, and related health services in the United States. The company is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. Prior to its October 2014 acquisition by Kindred Healthcare, it was a Fortune 1000 company with over $1.7 billion in annual revenue and a member of the S&P 600 index.
The information presented in this map reflects the results of hospice inspections provided by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), the hospice industry’s federal regulator, in response to a public records request. The time period covers Jan. 2, 2004, to Oct. 16, 2014.
An analysis by the Washington Post last December of California hospice data found that the proportion of patients who were discharged alive from the health service rose by about 50 percent between 2002 and 2012. Profit per patient quintupled to $1,975 in California, the newspaper reported.
VITAS Healthcare. VITAS® Healthcare is a provider [1] of end-of-life care in the United States. Operating 50 hospice programs in 14 states and the District of Columbia, [2] VITAS employs 10,000 professionals and serves an average daily census of more than 19,000 patients, according to the company's website. [3]
Medicare’s federal regulator has punished a hospice just 16 times in the last decade, despite carrying out 15,000 inspections and identifying more than 31,000 violations. In each instance, the regulator terminated the hospice’s license, the only sanction available under federal law.