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Through Education and Collaboration Hospices Can Help Shape Value-Based Palliative Care

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Palliative care packs a small but meaningful punch in the value-based payment arena. . To successfully negotiate value-based contracts, hospices will need to educate payers about the value of palliative care, according to J. Cameron Muir, M.D., This is the first step toward change, according to Muir. “We

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The Intersections Between Hospice and Palliative Care

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Hospice care and palliative care services have similar, but diverging, threads across the care continuum. An area of increasing overlap centers around patient consultations discussing symptom management and goals of care. Palliative care and hospice share some common goals with hospice.

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The Case for Palliative Care in the ICU

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The communication facilitated by palliative care helps decision-makers understand the gravity of the situation and the future implications of their care choices. Palliative care benefits families and caregivers of patients because of all these repeated discussions about patient values and goals,” said Ouchi. “I’m