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The Link Between Palliative and Mental Health Care

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Researchers dug into patients’ data to examine palliative care utilization and delivery of mental health services and pharmacotherapies between January 1, 2010, and December 31, 2018.

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‘Innovative Opportunities’ Exist in Growing Need for Trauma-Informed Bereavement Care

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from 2000 to 2010, a research analysis found. Overdose death rates have been increasing for the past several years, particularly among seniors 55 and older, the CDC reported. Though homicide rates have fallen in recent years, the volume of other trauma-related mortality increased by nearly 22.8%

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Early Palliative Care Spending Rose Over the Last Decade

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Though the numbers are still relatively low, spending on early palliative care rose between 2010 and 2019 for patients with advanced cancers, a recent study found. in 2017 through 2019 compared to 51% in 2010-2013. A decline occurred with between-provider variation, 45.3%

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Hospices’ Mythbusting Strategies: ‘It’s Not Brink-of-Death Care’

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National hospice utilization rates have hovered around this vicinity for the past decade, with 44% of decedents receiving these services in 2010, the Alliance report found. Nearly half, or 49.1%, of all Medicare decedents utilized hospice services in 2022, reported the National Alliance for Care at Home.

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Research Points to Palliative Care’s Underutilization Among Cancer Patients

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The researchers examined Medicare claims data of beneficiaries 65 and older with recent cancer diagnoses who were given a six-month life expectancy prognosis between 2010 and 2019. Patients included those with advanced stage breast, colorectal, non-small cell lung (NSCL), small cell lung (SCL), pancreas and prostate cancer.

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How California Began Expanding Palliative Care Via Medicaid

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He returned to hospice care part time from 2010 to 2014 from his home base in Napa County. All of this started from a [University of California-San Francisco (USCF)] safety net study in 2010, which showed that most MediCal members spend a lot of time in the hospital close to death,” he said.

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Congress Grills HHS on Hospice Program Integrity

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Between 2010 and 2024, the number of hospices in those four states has grown exponentially, according to data shared with Hospice News on background. New Hospice Growth 2010-2024 State 2010 (No. No other state had more than 15 new hospices enrolled, with most having single-digit enrollment, according to the data.

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