app03 Sat, 20 Jun 2026 23:41:23 +0000 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) https://www.masteringmedicare.net/tags/hospice Sun, 03 Jan 2021 15:00:00 -0500 What's the difference between Home Health and Home Care? How do Medicare Part A and Part B work? How do you order DME for your patient? When and how should you order home oxygen? What's new in the eldercare space? For physicians, other healthcare professionals, and senior-serving professionals, interacting with Medicare can be complicated and wrought with pitfalls, which, if not understood and managed, will mire your practice in endless paperwork and frustration. We interview industry experts in every aspect of healthcare, from insurance companies, DME companies, home health agencies, medical providers, and many others, to bring you their real world expertise in the American healthcare system. Your hosts are Dr. Amy Schiffman and Dr. Alex Mohseni, two Emergency Medicine physicians who have branched off from traditional Emergency Medicine to explore and build solutions with a particular focus on eldercare and population health. Join our Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/602747270479020/ Join our Subscriber List and get exclusive access to our Mastering Medicare Cheat Sheet and other goodies: https://www.masteringmedicare.net/subscribe en-us episodic Demystifying healthcare and Medicare for senior-serving professionals and providers. Mastering Medicare What's the difference between Home Health and Home Care? How do Medicare Part A and Part B work? How do you order DME for your patient? When and how should you order home oxygen? What's new in the eldercare space? For physicians, other healthcare professionals, and senior-serving professionals, interacting with Medicare can be complicated and wrought with pitfalls, which, if not understood and managed, will mire your practice in endless paperwork and frustration. We interview industry experts in every aspect of healthcare, from insurance companies, DME companies, home health agencies, medical providers, and many others, to bring you their real world expertise in the American healthcare system. Your hosts are Dr. Amy Schiffman and Dr. Alex Mohseni, two Emergency Medicine physicians who have branched off from traditional Emergency Medicine to explore and build solutions with a particular focus on eldercare and population health. Join our Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/602747270479020/ Join our Subscriber List and get exclusive access to our Mastering Medicare Cheat Sheet and other goodies: https://www.masteringmedicare.net/subscribe no elder care, eldercare, Medicare, Medicaid, healthcare, senior care, senior, seniors, senior-serving professionals, medical care, insurance company Mastering Medicare alex@masteringmedicare.net https://www.masteringmedicare.net/17 14cf241b-2805-4928-b0b1-7f940e55fade Sun, 03 Jan 2021 15:00:00 -0500 Mastering Medicare full Mastering Medicare Mastering Medicare is a podcast helping demystify healthcare and Medicare for senior-serving professionals and providers. 1:26:40 no <p>Danielle Doberman, MD, MPH, HMDC, is the Clinical Medical Director for Palliative Medicine at Johns Hopkins Hospital. Dr. Amy Schiffman and Dr. Alex Mohseni dive deep into the world of Palliative Care to understand what this commonly misunderstood specialty is all about. We cover the following:<br> What is palliative care / palliative medicine?<br> What symptoms does palliative focus on?<br> How does palliative operate as a team?<br> Hospital-based vs outpatient palliative care<br> Palliative care vs hospice<br> <a href="https://www.PrepareForYourCare.org" rel="nofollow noopener">https://www.PrepareForYourCare.org</a><br> Who should be a palliative care patient?<br> Where do most referrals to palliative care come from?<br> <a href="https://getpalliativecare.org" rel="nofollow noopener">https://getpalliativecare.org</a><br> Center to Advance Palliative Care <a href="http://www.capc.org" rel="nofollow noopener">www.capc.org</a><br> Interaction and relationship between PCPs and palliative care<br> Contracting for safety and consent in palliative care<br> Palliative care pain management<br> Palliative Sedation (aka Proportional Sedation)<br> <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4747100/" rel="nofollow noopener">Article: "Best Case Worst Case" </a> <br> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnS3K44sbu0" rel="nofollow noopener">Youtube video "Best Case Worst Case"</a><br> Palliative care is not giving up<br> Palliative care services lose money but they help the hospital because they reduce inpatient length of stay<br> $3,000 of Part A savings per palliative care patient<br> Typical patient volumes for palliative care<br> Youtube version of this interview: <a href="https://youtu.be/poYoZ807SWU" rel="nofollow noopener">https://youtu.be/poYoZ807SWU</a> </p> Medicare, healthcare, physician, medical, senior care, eldercare, elder care, elder, seniors, palliative care, palliative, palliative medicine, hospice Danielle Doberman, MD, MPH, HMDC, is the Clinical Medical Director for Palliative Medicine at Johns Hopkins Hospital. Dr. Amy Schiffman and Dr. Alex Mohseni dive deep into the world of Palliative Care to understand what this commonly misunderstood specialty is all about. We cover the following:
What is palliative care / palliative medicine?
What symptoms does palliative focus on?
How does palliative operate as a team?
Hospital-based vs outpatient palliative care
Palliative care vs hospice
https://www.PrepareForYourCare.org
Who should be a palliative care patient?
Where do most referrals to palliative care come from?
https://getpalliativecare.org
Center to Advance Palliative Care www.capc.org
Interaction and relationship between PCPs and palliative care
Contracting for safety and consent in palliative care
Palliative care pain management
Palliative Sedation (aka Proportional Sedation)
Article: "Best Case Worst Case"
Youtube video "Best Case Worst Case"
Palliative care is not giving up
Palliative care services lose money but they help the hospital because they reduce inpatient length of stay
$3,000 of Part A savings per palliative care patient
Typical patient volumes for palliative care
Youtube version of this interview: https://youtu.be/poYoZ807SWU

]]> Danielle Doberman, MD, MPH, HMDC, is the Clinical Medical Director for Palliative Medicine at Johns Hopkins Hospital. Dr. Amy Schiffman and Dr. Alex Mohseni dive deep into the world of Palliative Care to understand what this commonly misunderstood specialty is all about. We cover the following:
What is palliative care / palliative medicine?
What symptoms does palliative focus on?
How does palliative operate as a team?
Hospital-based vs outpatient palliative care
Palliative care vs hospice
https://www.PrepareForYourCare.org
Who should be a palliative care patient?
Where do most referrals to palliative care come from?
https://getpalliativecare.org
Center to Advance Palliative Care www.capc.org
Interaction and relationship between PCPs and palliative care
Contracting for safety and consent in palliative care
Palliative care pain management
Palliative Sedation (aka Proportional Sedation)
Article: "Best Case Worst Case"
Youtube video "Best Case Worst Case"
Palliative care is not giving up
Palliative care services lose money but they help the hospital because they reduce inpatient length of stay
$3,000 of Part A savings per palliative care patient
Typical patient volumes for palliative care
Youtube version of this interview: https://youtu.be/poYoZ807SWU

]]> https://www.masteringmedicare.net/14 6ae3508f-565d-4423-8c45-960ba761fac1 Fri, 11 Sep 2020 06:00:00 -0400 Mastering Medicare full Mastering Medicare Mastering Medicare is a podcast helping demystify healthcare and Medicare for senior-serving professionals and providers. 1:23:38 no <p>In this episode we do a deep dive into Hospice with our guest, Cathy Gurson. She teaches us everything we ever wanted to know about Hospice. Here are some of the topics we cover:<br> How do people get referred to hospice<br> Hospice is covered 100% by Medicare part A<br> What does hospice cover<br> How to get Part B medical care covered while under hospice<br> Hospice reimbursement model<br> Hospice per diem<br> Three levels of hospice care<br> Pier diem changes at the higher levels of care<br> For profit vs non-profit hospice<br> Hospice certificate of need requirements<br> What questions you should ask about when interviewing a hospice<br> CHAP certification for hospice<br> Transitioning - what does transitioning mean in the context of hospice?<br> How to know when a hospice patient is dying<br> Does hospice pay for food and nutrition<br> Tube feeding hospice patients<br> Measuring mean arm circumference (MAC) as a measure of nutritional decline<br> Who is making the hospice recertification?<br> Hospice patient’s relationships with their their PCP and hospice medical director<br> DNR status and resuscitating hospice patients<br> Most common reasons somebody leaves hospice status<br> What is the role of PCPs for patients in hospice status<br> What a PCP can bill for care plan oversight for a hospice patient<br> Retroactive hospice status changes<br> What happens if you don’t requalify for hospice recertification?<br> Graduating from hospice<br> Video version: <a href="https://youtu.be/qat1HZicdrA" rel="nofollow noopener">https://youtu.be/qat1HZicdrA</a> </p> Medicare, healthcare, physician, medical, senior care, eldercare, elder care, elder, seniors, hospice, hospice care, palliative care In this episode we do a deep dive into Hospice with our guest, Cathy Gurson. She teaches us everything we ever wanted to know about Hospice. Here are some of the topics we cover:
How do people get referred to hospice
Hospice is covered 100% by Medicare part A
What does hospice cover
How to get Part B medical care covered while under hospice
Hospice reimbursement model
Hospice per diem
Three levels of hospice care
Pier diem changes at the higher levels of care
For profit vs non-profit hospice
Hospice certificate of need requirements
What questions you should ask about when interviewing a hospice
CHAP certification for hospice
Transitioning - what does transitioning mean in the context of hospice?
How to know when a hospice patient is dying
Does hospice pay for food and nutrition
Tube feeding hospice patients
Measuring mean arm circumference (MAC) as a measure of nutritional decline
Who is making the hospice recertification?
Hospice patient’s relationships with their their PCP and hospice medical director
DNR status and resuscitating hospice patients
Most common reasons somebody leaves hospice status
What is the role of PCPs for patients in hospice status
What a PCP can bill for care plan oversight for a hospice patient
Retroactive hospice status changes
What happens if you don’t requalify for hospice recertification?
Graduating from hospice
Video version: https://youtu.be/qat1HZicdrA

]]> In this episode we do a deep dive into Hospice with our guest, Cathy Gurson. She teaches us everything we ever wanted to know about Hospice. Here are some of the topics we cover:
How do people get referred to hospice
Hospice is covered 100% by Medicare part A
What does hospice cover
How to get Part B medical care covered while under hospice
Hospice reimbursement model
Hospice per diem
Three levels of hospice care
Pier diem changes at the higher levels of care
For profit vs non-profit hospice
Hospice certificate of need requirements
What questions you should ask about when interviewing a hospice
CHAP certification for hospice
Transitioning - what does transitioning mean in the context of hospice?
How to know when a hospice patient is dying
Does hospice pay for food and nutrition
Tube feeding hospice patients
Measuring mean arm circumference (MAC) as a measure of nutritional decline
Who is making the hospice recertification?
Hospice patient’s relationships with their their PCP and hospice medical director
DNR status and resuscitating hospice patients
Most common reasons somebody leaves hospice status
What is the role of PCPs for patients in hospice status
What a PCP can bill for care plan oversight for a hospice patient
Retroactive hospice status changes
What happens if you don’t requalify for hospice recertification?
Graduating from hospice
Video version: https://youtu.be/qat1HZicdrA

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