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How Palliative Care Providers Can Enhance Care Coordination

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Fragmented health care has significant ties to adverse outcomes in patients with chronic or serious illnesses. Palliative care providers’ ability to navigate the health care system, coordinate the delivery of care, interact regularly with patients, and facilitate communication between providers can reduce this fragmentation.

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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. YoloCares offers hospice, supportive and palliative care, adult day services and advance care planning, among other programs. Those are very interesting subjects that are coming up across the health care organizations that we deal with so far.”

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Education, Care Coordination Key to Preventing Unnecessary Revocations of the Hospice Benefit

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of patients who were discharged from hospice in 2020 did so while they were still alive, according to the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO). The post Education, Care Coordination Key to Preventing Unnecessary Revocations of the Hospice Benefit appeared first on Hospice News. About 15.4% Of those, 5.7%

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

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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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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The Tangled Web of Pediatric Palliative Care Payment and Policy

Hospice News

A complex web of state regulations and reimbursement systems can challenge pediatric palliative care access for seriously ill children and their families. Our health care system in the United States is really designed for adult illness care. There’s no consistency.”

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A Decade of Palliative Telehealth Utilization Shows Quality Improvement

Hospice News

Telehealth utilization for palliative care during the last decade has been associated with improved quality of life, patient satisfaction and symptom management. Researchers included palliative care professionals and educators at medical colleges and hospitals in India. The analysis comes at a time when current U.S.

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