Melissa Aldridge
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first heard Aug 2022
last heard Aug 2022
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Certainly there's there's for profits on the other end of the spectrum, but you can use that kind of variability in the average to really target where CMS should start some more extensive oversight.
The other scenario that exists is just disenrollment because an individual is hospitalized.
There's a cost avoidance aspect to it too.
And if you look at that tail, there's sometimes it like uh individual will call 911, go to the hospital, be disenrolled.
The hospice doesn't have to then pay for that episode.
Then they leave and they're enrolled again.
So some people cycle in and out as a cost avoidance is kind of a third aspect.
I think that's exactly right.
And I think one of the things that that you describe is when you say it was originally designed around a cancer paradigm, that's around access to it.
That's around this six month prognosis and you can only get in if it's that and that works better for cancer.
But you know, what we found in this paper is once you're in, once you're around that barrier that really was cancer design, it works.
Like this is a population that needs palliative care, probably different type.
you know, once once you you are in the home working, but it it
It works for that group once you're in.
Yeah.
I I mean there's a lot out there.
I think it's it's it's something that there's obviously a high demand for, right?
It it's still growing rapidly.
People across all diagnoses want hospice care.
It's obviously profitable on the supply side.
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