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Hospice Billing Compliance: The Latest PEPPER Updates

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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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Diana Lee Guida Brown

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Fittingly and true to her own final intention, Diana died peacefully at her Leonia, New Jersey home while receiving hospice care. 1 Fall 1978 and “A Model for Group Intervention with the Chronically Ill: Cystic Fibrosis and the Family” published both in Social Work and Pediatrics , Ruth B. She was 88 years old. Smith & Helen G.

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Do you fear dying?

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A hospice nurse visits an elderly man. Treating health anxiety is done through a range of cognitive and behavioral interventions, Chesworth says. Getty Images. Brittney Chesworth. While most people don’t like the idea of death, they are able to accept to some degree that they are going to die one day.

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News Items – September 8, 2022

Social Workers Speak

Jessie Wolf is a member: Awareness, intervention help prevent suicide. Whether in direct practice or in research and academia, we should work together to help Hospice and Palliative Care Social Work meet its full potential. Mayo Clinic. Suicide affects people from all walks of life, cultures and socioeconomic statuses.

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Understanding the PEPPER Can Reduce Home Health and Skilled Nursing Audit Risks

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You can look at the PEPPER website’s user guide to see all target areas and a list of potential interventions for each. This report can help organizations identify potential overpayments as well as potential underpayments. The report is available for the following facilities: Skilled nursing facilities. Home health agencies.

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News Items – May 20, 2022

Social Workers Speak

NASW New Jersey supports professional interventions at the individual level that help the person seeking therapy to achieve self-actualization.”. She said she sees her hospice clients, even the ones considered wealthy, struggle to afford the health care everyone deserves. What abortion rights advocates are planning if Roe falls.

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Third Season Episode 19: Part two of the conversation with Thomas Attig on his book, “Catching your breath in grief.”Third Season Episode 19:

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Tom has written numerous books, articles and reviews on grief and loss, care of the dying, suicide intervention, death education, expert witnessing in wrongful death cases, the ethics of interactions with […]. Thomas Attig on his book, “Catching Your Breath in Grief…and grace will lead you home.”