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How Palliative Care Providers Can Enhance Care Coordination

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This type of coordination can improve outcomes , decrease costs, and offer patients a better quality of life. Navigating system challenging for patients Critiques of current care coordination often focus on the disjointed experiences patients have when dealing with multiple providers, specialists and other services.

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Care Coordination Key to Hospices’ Success in Value-Based Care

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As more health care reimbursement migrates towards value-based payment models, providers will need to master the art of care coordination. Seriously ill patients can easily fall through the cracks in a fragmented health care system, leading to poorer outcomes and costly hospital stays and emergency department visits.

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Enhancing Care Coordination Can Give Hospices An Edge in Value-Based Models

Hospice News

As more health care reimbursement migrates towards value-based payment models, providers will need to master the art of care coordination. Seriously ill patients can easily fall through the cracks in a fragmented health care system, leading to poorer outcomes and costly hospital stays and emergency department visits.

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Care Coordination, Quality Data Crucial to Hospice Referral Growth

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Care coordination and quality data will be engines for hospice referral growth. Those are very interesting subjects that are coming up across the health care organizations that we deal with so far.” The post Care Coordination, Quality Data Crucial to Hospice Referral Growth appeared first on Hospice News.

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Humana, Thyme Care Partnership to Expand Access to Palliative Care

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Care coordination between providers: Thyme Care coordinates with a members oncologist, primary care physician and other specialists to ensure everyone has the right information at the right time to make informed care decisions.

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Inside Heart to Heart Hospice’s Palliative Care Growth Strategy

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The community-based palliative care program also drove a 59% improvement rate in care coordination, Heart to Heart Hospice reported in a recent press release. The PMPM costs were cut in half across the board among 272 admitted patients, the company recently reported.

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2024’s Most Read Palliative Care News Stories

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Those services cost saving potential has gained palliative care providers traction in hospitals, health systems and primary care settings. More research has also tied these services to improved outcomes among patients and families and better care coordination.