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Compassus’ Laura Templeton: Education, Better Reimbursement Needed to Foster Palliative Care Growth

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What has led your career journey into palliative care? I worked in acute care prior to coming into the more integrated home-based care scene at Compassus in 2012. Your palliative care team can be instrumental in listening to the goals of a patient and helping to guide them around the care they desire.

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Top Hospice Trends to Watch in 2025

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An OIG study of hospice billing claims submitted during 2012 found that 31% of the GIP claims that providers submitted to CMS were inappropriately billed to the tune of an estimated $268 million that year alone. also recently expanded its disease-specific program for dementia patients, dubbed Magnolia Care.

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An ‘Urgent Need for Palliative Care, Heart Failure Care Integration

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Integrating palliative care (PC) services alongside heart failure (HF) management has been associated with improved patient satisfaction and symptom control, as well as more informed decision-making processes throughout the disease trajectory. Demand for greater care coordination is growing on global and national levels.