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Oncologists: Palliative Care Plays ‘Critical Role’ in Improving Quality, Health Equity

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Interdisciplinary palliative care delivery can help to improve quality and health disparities among underserved cancer patient populations, according to oncology specialists. Barrett is also the associate director of community outreach and engagement at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptists Office of Cancer Health Equity. Theres a huge gap there.

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Advocacy Program Pushes for Improved Pediatric Hospice, Respite, Palliative Care

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Serious and terminally ill children and their families often have limited options when it comes to pediatric hospice, respite and palliative care. A national public awareness program is seeking to change this trend. The campaign has since grown to include 40 palliative and hospice programs across 27 states. The third area is community building.

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Palliative Care Could See ‘Enormous Growth’ in Hospice M&A Landscape

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Hospices that have palliative care service lines may be better poised for growth in the merger and acquisition landscape compared to others. But the ability to demonstrate sustainability and scalability of these services will be crucial to manifesting a return on investment. Thats dramatically different than even five years ago.

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The Emergence of Integrative Therapies in Palliative Care

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I think it is definitely something we should be offering by way of palliative, whole life, whole patient-centred care, she said. A key component of palliative care is understanding that chronic conditions may not be cured, but rather need to be managed, sometimes for many years.

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Payers to CMMI: We Need a Standardized Definition for Palliative Care

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A group of health plans, policymakers, and insurance companies recently told the Center for Medicare & Medicare Innovation (CMMI) that they needed a standardized definition for palliative care in order to improve access. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). There are different domains of care that need to be addressed.

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C-TAC: CMS’ ‘Palliative’ Definition in 2025 Proposed Hospice Rule ‘Misaligned, Problematic’

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This definition could complicate hospices’ ability to accurately and appropriate bill for palliative care, C-TAC stated. This definition could complicate hospices’ ability to accurately and appropriate bill for palliative care, C-TAC stated. The use of the term ‘palliative’ for treatments in this RFI was problematic.”

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Value-Based Research Has ‘Dramatic Impact’ in Palliative Services

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Sometimes I think we tend to focus on outcomes that are more narrow in definition or more aligned with traditional definitions of health, like the absence of physical disease, when in reality theres so much more to the context in which the patient exists.

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