Veltri Healthcare Solutions

In April of this year, we wrote about the confusion that would ensue from a CMS regulation that would require that hospice providers be responsible for all medications dispensed to patients under their care who were also Medicare Part D recipients. The exception to this requirement would occur only ...

It always amazed me, during pre-acquisition due diligence, how prospective buyers accept the most outlandish stories of how the company for sale acquires and retains customers. The buyer may ask to speak with some, and the seller may direct them to certain pre-picked accounts with orchestrated answe...

Long term care pharmacies are dealing with a new billing problem – the change in Medicare Part D that affects payments for hospice patients' medications. A large percentage of hospice patients live in health care facilities rather than at home or in an in-patient hospice unit. This living condition ...

Managers need two skills to be successful. They need to be decisive, and they need to be able to cultivate support for their decisions. The two go hand in hand. Being a manager means making decisions and standing behind them. Making decisions involves judgment, experience, intuition and sometimes d...

The recent clarification by CMS indicates that hospices must bear the cost of virtually all medications taken by their patients, rather than just those related to the hospice diagnoses. This action should send every provider scurrying for their pharmacy-provider agreement and demanding an in person ...