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LeadingAge to Congress: Reform Hospice Benefit, Fund Palliative Care

Hospice News

“For those who are electing a truly curative treatment (such as a third-line chemotherapy with the intent to cure the disease), we recommend that the billing remain the same while fixing issues with Part B palliative care to enable a more holistic experience.”

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Stepped Palliative Care: A Podcast with Jennifer Temel, Chris Jones, and Pallavi Kumar

GeriPal

Now we can talk later on about the different models of paying for care coordination. We do have access to palliative care social work in the outpatient setting, and we have a nurse. We don’t have pastoral care actually readily available for our ambulatory patients. Pallavi 09:26 Yeah.