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Congressional Briefing Demonstrates the Value of the Medicare Hospice Benefit

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billion in Medicare savings in 2019, while also providing multiple benefits to patients, families, and caregivers. With hospice, you can provide that care at home.” Key findings from the Value of Hospice study include the following: NORC estimates that Medicare spending for those who received hospice care was $3.5

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Challenges for children’s palliative care

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Currently the differences in the availability of children’s palliative care services vary considerably (Hakanson et al 2017; Renton et al 2018; Mitchell et al 2019), and where these services are available the provision is not consistent (Fraser, Fleming and Paslow 2018; Mitchell et al 2019; Malcolm and Knighting 2021).

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New Research Shows Hospice Care Reduces Medicare Costs

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For Immediate Release March 22, 2023 New Research Shows Hospice Care Reduces Medicare Costs Hospice Care Contributed to $3.5 billion in savings for Medicare in 2019, while providing multiple benefits to patients, families, and caregivers. That’s what hospice has done for more than 40 years.