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New Federal Rules Will Require Home Health Agencies To Do Much More For Patients

By Judith Graham February 9, 2017 KFF Health News Original

The first overhaul of federal regulations in almost 30 years for home health care agencies will require them to be much more responsive to what aging patients and their caregivers need or want.

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Mobile Team Offers Comfort Care To Homeless At Life’s End

By JoNel Aleccia January 12, 2017 KFF Health News Original

A Seattle program pioneers palliative care that reaches dying patients on streets and in shelters.

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Business Groups Bemoan Medicare’s ‘Step Backward’ On Payments Based On Value

August 21, 2017 Morning Briefing

The Trump administration’s decision last week to slow down efforts to move to bundled payments for some surgeries has raised concerns. Also, Stat looks at the new Medicare information on hospices

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New Medicare Rules Should Help ‘High Need’ Patients Get Better Treatment

By Judith Graham December 22, 2016 KFF Health News Original

Medicare is launching new regulations in January that will provide higher reimbursements for doctors involved in care coordination for seriously ill people.

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Research Roundup: Early Hospice Discharges Turn Profits; Integrating Mental Health Care

July 21, 2017 Morning Briefing

Each week, KHN compiles a selection of recently released health policy studies and briefs.

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Colorado Wrestles With Ethics Of Aid-In-Dying As Vote Looms

By John Daley, Colorado Public Radio October 26, 2016 KFF Health News Original

Proposition 106, on Colorado’s ballot next month, would allow doctors to prescribe a lethal dose of medication to people who have less than six months to live. A recent poll shows strong support for the measure.

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Terminally Ill Patients Don’t Use Aid-In-Dying Laws To Relieve Pain

By Liz Szabo October 26, 2016 KFF Health News Original

Ending pain and suffering has helped several states pass “right-to-die” laws, but dying patients are more concerned about controlling how they die and dying with dignity.

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‘It’s Only Getting Worse’: Hospitals Flooded With Opioid Patients As Crisis Rages On

August 22, 2017 Morning Briefing

There’s been a 64 percent increase in inpatient stays, while emergency room visits related to opioids have doubled since 2005. Meanwhile, Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price praises China’s help in cracking down on opioids. And experts say hospices aren’t doing enough to monitor family members’ potential abuse of patients’ drugs.

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How To Spend Your Final Months At Home, Sweet Home

By Judith Graham November 10, 2016 KFF Health News Original

Older adults who hope to spend the end of their lives at home need to take key steps to make that possible.

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Patients With Dementia Present Communication Challenges In Hospice Care

By Rachel Bluth September 7, 2016 KFF Health News Original

Dementia complicates pain management in hospice patients because communication is difficult and the cause of pain can be hard to identify, researchers report.

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Feds To Collect More Than $53M From Genesis HealthCare To Settle False Medicare Claim Charges

June 19, 2017 Morning Briefing

The nursing home operator strikes a settlement with the Justice Department to end six federal lawsuits and investigations of allegations that the company submitted false claims to Medicare and Medicaid for medically unnecessary therapy, hospice service and substandard care.

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Maverick AIDS Activist To Porn Police? The Man Behind California’s Proposition 60

By April Dembosky November 3, 2016 KFF Health News Original

Michael Weinstein of the AIDS Healthcare Foundation says he is promoting condoms where others have forgotten them.

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More Prisoners Die Of Old Age Behind Bars

By Melissa Bailey December 15, 2016 KFF Health News Original

New data show 4,980 inmate deaths in 2014, the most since counting began in 2001.

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Medical interpreter Veronica Maldonado listens to physician Faheem Jukaku as he explains recent test results to patient Alfredo David at Riverside University Health System Medical Center in Moreno Valley, Calif., on Thursday, June 9, 2016. Maldonado translates the information from English to Spanish for David. (Heidi de Marco/KHN)

‘More At Peace’: Interpreters Key To Easing Patients’ Final Days

By Eryn Brown Photos by Heidi de Marco August 22, 2016 KFF Health News Original

But more training is needed for such translators to do their jobs well, without miscommunications and misunderstandings.

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Thelma Atkins, 92, was admitted to the geriatric unit at the University of Alabama Hospital in Birmingham after a neighbor at her senior living facility ran over her feet with a motorized scooter. Hospital staff got her up and walking soon after her arrival. (Hal Yeager for KHN)

Slowing Down Hospital Discharge Requires Fast Action

By Judith Graham December 1, 2016 KFF Health News Original

Seniors who feel they’re being rushed out of the hospital can file an appeal to halt the process but they need to act fast.

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Hospice Workers Face History Of Neglect In Trying To Overcome African-American Distrust

April 6, 2017 Morning Briefing

Stat looks at efforts to tackle the issue of minority access to hospice care as a matter of social justice. In related news stories, former Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius urges doctors to allow patients to drive end-of-life care decisions while researchers study how diet might help ward off Alzheimer’s.

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Saying Goodbye, The Right Way

By Anna Gorman October 3, 2016 KFF Health News Original

Twenty dying people, at peace with their mortality, shared their views on life, love and death with a Los Angeles artist for an exhibit at the Museum of Tolerance.

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Younger Seniors Amass More End-Of-Life Care Than Oldest Americans, Study Finds

By Rachel Bluth July 14, 2016 KFF Health News Original

A Kaiser Family Foundation analysis sheds new light on a widely-held belief about the costs of end-of-life care.

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As The For-Profit World Moves Into An Elder Care Program, Some Worry

By Sarah Varney August 24, 2016 KFF Health News Original

PACE, a little-known Medicare program that helps keep older people in their own homes, is allowing for-profit companies in. Tech and venture capital have expressed interest.

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End-Of-Life Care Better For Patients With Cancer, Dementia: Study Finds

By Shefali Luthra June 27, 2016 KFF Health News Original

Researchers concluded that physicians and other health professionals are less likely to know or accommodate the advanced-care preferences of patients with conditions such as renal disease or congestive heart failure, among others.

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