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Researchers: Palliative Care an Overlooked Global Health Priority 

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By 2060, more than 48 million people globally will die with serious health related suffering, up 87% from 2016, the authors indicated. Palliative care is a neglected health care priority worldwide, three nursing experts contend. The three authors recently published their remarks in the British Medical Journal.

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The Case for Integrating Social Determinants Into Palliative Care

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For example, 2016 research found that close to 3.6 Individually, palliative care and social determinants programs both have the potential to improve quality of life and reduce costs — but that potential may be greater when the two are combined. million in savings within the first six months . Case in point, the U.S.

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The ‘Holy Grail’ of Palliative Care Payment Through ACOs

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A 2016 study in the Journal of Palliative Medicine that showed organizations could save as much as $10,000 a month for patients who were getting in-home palliative care. ACOs are groups of physicians, hospitals and other health care providers who come together voluntarily to give coordinated high-quality care to their Medicare patients.

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Primary-Palliative Care Model Improved Quality, Cost Savings

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Founded in 2016, agilon health, inc. A primary care-led, integrated palliative program scaled across multiple geographies, care sites, and payers demonstrated higher quality care while lowering total cost of care. The findings appeared in the Journal of Pain and Symptom Management. American health care is facing an impending crisis.

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CMMI Analysis: Palliative Care Reduces Medicare Costs, Improve Patient Satisfaction

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CMS launched the MCCM in 2016 to explore the idea of allowing hospice patients to receive concurrent curative care. When deployed at scale, palliative care can help achieve many of the health care systems current goals, including reduced costs, improved patient satisfaction and quality of life. Total savings per patient reached $7,254.

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Study: 40% of Adults Don’t Want to Talk About Palliative Care

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The results show that people were less inclined to discuss palliative care than they were in previous surveys in 2015 and 2016. An Irish study found that 4 in 10 adults prefer not to think or discuss palliative care. All Ireland Institute of Hospice and Palliative Care (AIIHPC ) conducted the research on public perceptions of palliative care.

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How California Began Expanding Palliative Care Via Medicaid

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The pilot, which ran from September 2015 through February 2016, had 82 patients enrolled across four counties and palliative care organizations: Collabria Care in Napa, Interim Healthcare in Redding, ResolutionCare in Eureka and YoloCares in Davis. He returned to hospice care part time from 2010 to 2014 from his home base in Napa County.