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Clinical Capacity Palliative Care Leaders’ Top Concern for 2025

Hospice News

Specifically, access to qualified hires was frequently at the top for pediatric programs,” Rachael Heitner, associate director of research and insights at CAPC, stated in a recent webinar highlighting the survey’s findings. The key takeaway here is that palliative care teams are often trying to handle increases in consult volumes.

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The ‘Holy Grail’ of Palliative Care Payment Through ACOs

Hospice News

Hospices and palliative care providers can collaborate with ACOs by becoming members of those organizations themselves, or by contracting with them through a preferred provider network. The model contains a high-needs track to serve the sickest, most complex patients whom hospice and palliative care providers are well-positioned to serve.

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Hospices Leaders: ‘Vigilant’ Compliance Pivotal in MAC Auditing Climate

Hospice News

The auditing environment has heated up in the hospice industry, with inconsistencies reportedly proliferating among the various types of regulatory enforcement activity — particularly those performed by Medicare Administrative Contractors (MACs). The issue has some hospice providers delving deeper into a range of compliance strategies.

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Education Key to Addressing Palliative Care Referral ‘Pain Points’

Hospice News

Among the most common misconceptions about palliative care is that these services are often conflated with hospice as support received at the end of a person’s life. Palliative isn’t hospice, you want them to be different programs,” Dedes told Palliative Care News during the Hospice News Sales & Marketing webinar series.

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Diverse Mix of Opportunities, Obstacles in Palliative Care’s Future Outlook

Hospice News

Hospices have historically represented the biggest cohort of the palliative care provider mix since the field emerged in the United States during the 1980s. Hospices have historically represented the biggest cohort of the palliative care provider mix since the field emerged in the United States during the 1980s.

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Standing Out in the Palliative Care Competitive Landscape

Hospice News

Marketing and outreach efforts need careful consideration when differentiating how a palliative care program can help address a wide range of patients’ physical, psychosocial, emotional, spiritual and practical needs, Dedes said during the Hospice News Sales & Marketing webinar series.

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How Palliative Care Can Benefit Heart Failure Patients

Hospice News

Given these factors, many of these patients should be receiving some form of palliative care, Dr. Larry Allen, chief of cardiology at the University of Colorado, said in a recent AHA webinar. Heart failure is an increasingly common condition among the aging U.S. population. This population also tends to see high rates of hospitalizations.