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Health care providers seeking to launch a palliative care program must navigate a tangled web of state licensing requirements. Without a national reimbursement model, palliative care companies are caught in a patchwork of systems that vary among the states. Each has its own standards for patient eligibility, licensing and clinical staffing. For hospices in particular that are moving into palliative care, they need to determine whether they can provide those services under their current license o
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