Melissa Aldridge

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GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine Podcast · Private Equity Gobbling Up Hospices plus Hospice and Dementia: Melissa Aldridge, Krista Harrison, & Lauren Hunt · 25 Aug 2022 podcast

You have lots, you have for profit coming in, you have private equity coming in, you have chains growing.

So it's like these two really quickly growing things that are matching up.

So it's kind of a matter of like putting some guardrails around it so that then when Medicare keeps paying for this, they know what they're paying for and they know how to identify outliers in it.

And for people with dementia, it's it's also their the fastest growing diagnostic group.

So there's clearly a need.

And then they're staying for long periods of time.

So I think instead of cracking down on that, we need to consider what else they need before hospice, right?

So there needs to be a whole other model.

And there's a lot of people doing trials and intervention work, which we need to try to address that piece of it.

So there's really a lot of moving parts in getting people, supply, demand, and then maybe some care before hospice.

Hospice for that group, I feel like it's on the most important trends.

Matt Gates.

And didn't this hospice just sell also for like

Like a ton of money.

And just to add to that, for me I think one of the most

One one of the most um compelling quality measures or at least aspects of utilization that that

I like to see is the visit data.

I think that was a huge advancement when you could see within the claims the amount of visits that were happening and the work that was done on variation in.

visits in the last week of life and hospices where where a certain percent of patients had no visits in the last week of life.

Like that's one of those I think advancements in quality metrics and kind of CMS being able to see what they're paying for.

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