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Hospice News
JANUARY 29, 2024
of the country’s total population, according to a 2015 report by the U.S. Fee-for-service Medicare, for example, only covers physician and licensed independent practitioner services and does not cover the full range of interdisciplinary palliative care. Census Bureau. But they do represent a glimmer of hope.
GeriPal
JUNE 30, 2022
And we know that a third of Medicare beneficiaries undergo surgery in the last year of life with 18% of those occurring in the last month of life. But we know that 30% of all decedents who are Medicare beneficiaries either die from dementia or have an existing diagnosis of dementia, which is something we talk about quite often, Joel and I.
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GeriPal
JANUARY 18, 2024
And Katie, I was going through your Twitter feed, and a tweet I noticed was this one, “All opioid guidelines caution long-term use in people with active substance use disorder.” But I think one aspect there was, what’s up with cancer pain, in general? Is cancer pain really different? Should we be excluding it?
AAHPM (American Academy of Hospice and Palliative)
AUGUST 11, 2023
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), followed by health plans, usually sets the general tone of quality assessment and incentives, thus influencing the allocation of resources to specific programs in the short and long term. Center to Advance Palliative Care (2015). References: Aldridge MD, Kelley AS. 2015.302889.
GeriPal
MARCH 3, 2022
He, his Twitter feed though is brilliant. Julien, let’s start off with, congratulations by the way and Lauren too, the CHEST paper that just got published on Trends in Geriatric Conditions Among Older Adults in the ICU between 1998 and 2015. It won’t take long, go get it by yourself.” Eric: Yeah. Alex: Yeah.
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