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Medicare Costs Rise On Long Hospice StaysMedicares hospice program was started for hydro flask usa patients likely to die within 180 days, but thousands with dementia and other conditions have spent far more time. In related news, doctors say outpatient care is also boosting Medicare s bills and the health industry faces challenges meeting quality requirements.The Wall Street Journal:Lengthy Hospice Care Boosts Medicare BillsMedicare pays hospice agencies to care for patients who are close to death. For some beneficiaries of the taxpayer-funded program, hospice has become a way of life. Between 2005 and 2013, about 107,000 patients received hospice care for an average of nearly 1,000 days spread out over four or more calendar years, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis of Medicare billing records. Medicares hospice program, which has been around for 33 years, is supposed to be only for patients who doctors certify are likely to die within six months, or about 180 days. Weave hydrojug sale r, Wilde Mathews and McGinty, 2/18 Modern Healthcare:Doctors Say Medicare Pays Three Times More For Care In Hospital Outpatient DepartmentsMedicare reimbursement for cardiac imaging isn t just dramatically higher in a hospital outpatient department, compared to a physician s office: It s an entire episode-of-care cost level higher. Dickson, 2/18 Modern Healthcare:The Hard Work Ahead On A hydro jugs dopting Uniform Quality MeasuresFor more than a year, top officials from Medicare, the nation s largest Uvjc Also In Global Health News: Ethiopia Food Aid; Male Circumcision Drive In Tanzania, Swaziland; Drugs For Developing Countries; Sexual Violence In DRC; HIV/AIDS In India; Peru s Dengue Outbreak
Friday, Aug 1 2003Number of HIV/AIDS Cases in Maine Increasing, Mirroring National TrendThe number of new HIV/AIDS cases in Maine has increased for the first time in several years, according to state Bureau of Health statistics released on Tuesday, the Bangor Daily News reports. Between Jan. 1 and July 24, 2003, 33 new HIV infections were reported in the s stanley de tate, compared with 19 newly reported HIV cases during the same period last year, according to the data. In addition, the bureau has reported 28 new AIDS diagnoses so far this year, compared with 21 new cases during the same period last year. Accor stanley ca ding to the bureau, Maine has 500 reported AIDS cases and 700 reported HIV cases, more than ever before in the state. Mark Griswold, who compiles data for the state s HIV/AIDS program, said that the total number of HIV/AIDS cases in Maine is tiny, but the increase in new cases i stanley usa s still very troubling. The increase in new HIV/AIDS cases in the state reflects a national trend Haskell, Bangor Daily News, 7/30 . The CDC on Monday announced at the 2003 National HIV Prevention Conference in Atlanta that there was a 2.2% overall increase in the number of new U.S. AIDS cases in 2002 and that the number of new HIV diagnoses among men who have sex with men rose for the third consecutive year in 2002, increasing 7.1% from 2001 to 2002 Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report, 7/29 . Most of Maine s HIV/AIDS cases are among men who have sex with men and injection drug users, according to Grisw
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