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Hospice Billing Compliance: The Latest PEPPER Updates

Relias

The Program for Evaluating Payment Patterns Electronic Report, or PEPPER, contains valuable information to help your hospice organization identify billing issues and prevent improper payment audits. The provider-specific PEPPER analyzes Medicare data and statistics from discharges and services compared with every hospice nationwide.

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Service recovery vs. obfuscation in hospice

Hospice Social Work

By doing excellent work (which I hope this website helps you to do), and by working for a good hospice (and they do exist!), To illustrate, here’s how NOT to respond, as illustrated by “Mortem Hospice,” the real hospice that served my grandfather (labeled with a generous pseudonym). Let’s talk about patient/family complaints.

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Good learning from bad hospice

Hospice Social Work

I’m very fortunate to work for a hospice with ethical and supportive leaders who empower us to do good work. Interacting with the hospice that served my grandfather up to his death, unfortunately, reminded me of the importance of helping bring about some change in our field. Hospice failures remind me of two things.

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Funeral homes: Where hospice workers forget patient self-determination

Hospice Social Work

I recently surveyed a hospice team about their attitudes and understanding about patient self-determination. The hospice team is responsible to make sure a funeral home is chosen for each patient.” The hospice team is responsible to inquire about end-of-life planning.” Overall, the results were positive. 6 chose this one.

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How to choose a good hospice (whether you’re looking for a job or signing up a relative)

Hospice Social Work

Now begins a discussion of how to choose a strong hospice. Whether you are looking because you want a hospice job, or because you have a family member who needs service, it’s good to know that hospices are not all equally well run. Some hospices provide amazing care to patients and are great to work for.

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Palliative Care: Social Workers Help Ensure Patients Have Access, Find Satisfaction

Social Work Blog

For example, the Veterans Health Administration published a study in January of this year that analyzed the records of 43,200 veterans receiving care through a Veterans Affairs health care site.

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Members in the Media – June 8, 2023

Social Workers Speak

Tracy Fooks is a member of NASW-NJ: Fooks Named Administrator At Angelic Health Hospice Care SNJ Today Tracy Fooks, MSW, LCSW , has been named the administrator for the West Atlantic City office of Angelic Health Hospice Care. It all gets to be just too much.

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