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| September 7, 2020 |
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| CMS Officially Launches Care Compare |
| The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services officially launched Care Compare, redesigning and streamlining eight health care comparison websites. Care Compare will continue to house quality measures for hospitals, skilled nursing facilities and home health in the new format with new tools, including one that says it will tell users what’s covered by Medicare. Read more. |
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| Sponsored by PBE |
| Don’t Let This Opportunity Slip By |
| Incontinence products are one of the most important HME business categories, along with mobility and oxygen/CPAP—and a great way to build customer loyalty. Check out these tips for making the most of your sales in this $4+billion market. |
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| New Legislation for Respite Care |
| During the COVID-19 pandemic, hospice organizations have experienced difficulty providing respite care in situations where family caregivers aren’t available to care for hospice patients for the current five-day limit (for example, when family caregivers have been diagnosed with COVID-19 and must isolate from vulnerable hospice patients). A new bill, S 4423, will make access easier. Read more. |
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| New Ideas for Reducing Loneliness |
| Robotic pets are a relatively new entrant into the senior care and memory care space. Joy For All launched its first Companion Pets with Hasbro in 2015, and the company has since worked on several research projects and studies ways to combat the epidemic of loneliness among seniors. Ted Fischer, president and CEO, gives HomeCare an update here. |
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