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Palliative Care Needs a Defined Scope to Expand Access, Reimbursement

Hospice News

A primary barrier for patient and family access to palliative care is a lack of standardized definition and payment mechanism. Without an established palliative care benefit or universally recognized definition in place, care delivery models, patient experiences and reimbursement of palliative care services vary widely across the nation.

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Undisclosed Conflicts of Interest by Physicians Creating the CDC Opioid Prescribing Guidelines: Bad Faith or Incompetence?

Pallimed

This unexpectedly and undesirably increased health insurers’ medication costs, including Medicare and Medicaid (22). We have applied CDC’s own ethics and guiding principles to identify these COIs, beginning with its definition of COIs from rules for creating the 2016 Guideline (2, 3). Proposed Medicare Changes to Opioid Prescribing.

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