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5 ‘Hidden Gem’ Palliative Care News Stories in 2024

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Palliative care providers are becoming a larger part of improving outcomes among patients with rare diseases by helping to address nonmedical needs, symptom management, care coordination, spiritual support and ensuring goal-concordant care delivery.

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How Palliative Care Fits in to CMMI’s Enhancing Oncology Model

Hospice News

A new cancer-focused payment model demonstration from the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) could create opportunities for palliative care providers. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). That’s another CMMI program that has an obvious palliative care tie-in.”

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Transparency Essential to Hospice Compliance in 2024

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Additional services include palliative care, a veterans program and care coordination. The rule requires providers seeking Medicare certification to report any changes in ownership and ensure the “highest level of screening,” possible, Piland said. On Wednesday, the U.S.

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Diverse Mix of Opportunities, Obstacles in Palliative Care’s Future Outlook

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But insufficient payment pathways represent a large hurdle for palliative care’s growth potential, Kulik said. “If If palliative care is a common provision of services in the marketplace, then the investor world is definitely looking at that,” Kulik told Palliative Care News. “No They’re going to try to spur growth.

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Why Some Referred Patients Never Make It To Hospice

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But this is definitely still not the norm.”. Health care organizations have taken some strides towards addressing social determinants of health, though that work is not over. Our health system doesn’t incentivize the type of care coordination that we might need. Case in point, the U.S.

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Hospice the Next Generation: How the Benefit Could Change

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The possibility exists that hospice care will change more in the next few years than it has during the previous four decades. The Medicare Hospice Benefit turned 40-years-old in 2022, and in that time the program has remained fundamentally unchanged. To an extent, it has also segregated hospice from the rest of the health care system.

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HSPN Palliative Care: Fireside Chat with Contessa and Netsmart

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We can talk a little bit more about some of the components with ACO REACH or some of the other opportunities that are available through supplemental benefits, through the MA plans but essentially, we think that the Medicare Advantage plans realize the value of paying for palliative care and the value add of hospice.