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Navigating Palliative Care Models in ACO Partnerships

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ACOs can give palliative providers an opportunity to be paid properly for their scope of services, particularly if theyre contracting with an ACO under an arrangement with Medicare, which launched a program called ACO Realizing Equity, Access and Community Health (ACO REACH) in 2023. According to the U.S.

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Bloom Healthcare CEO: Integrating Palliative Care Into Every Decision

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Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services recently recognized Bloom as a top performing High-Needs Accountable Care Organization under the agency’s Realizing Equity, Access and Community Health (ACO REACH) model. We have Medicare-Medicaid dual eligibles, Medicare Advantage, Medicare fee-for-service.

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Humana, Thyme Care Partnership to Expand Access to Palliative Care

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The value-based agreement contracts Thyme Care with Humana Medicare Advantage plans, giving them access to their beneficiaries. Humana Medicare Advantage members who are eligible for the program in Michigan, New York, Illinois, Indiana, Tennessee, Pennsylvania and New Jersey may now receive services from Thyme Care.

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Inside The Pennant Group’s Palliative Care Philosophy and Practice

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Our philosophy is that palliative care as a whole should be kind of a blanket that goes over all of those things and helps coordinate the care that those patients need across all of those settings, no matter which specialists they’re seeing or which which Medicare defined service line they’re a part of, Walker told Palliative Care News.

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Researchers: Palliative Care an Overlooked Global Health Priority 

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Palliative care is a neglected health care priority worldwide, three nursing experts contend. More than 10,000 people become Medicare-eligible every day, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation. The three authors recently published their remarks in the British Medical Journal.

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CMS Finalizes 2.9% Cut in Physician Payments for 2025, Including for Palliative Care

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Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has finalized a nearly 2.9% To put it bluntly, Medicare plans to pay us less while costs go up. Since 1992, Medicare payment has been made under the PFS for the services of physicians and other billing professionals. Industry organizations were quick to denounce the pay cut. “To

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IN-PEACE Palliative Care-Dementia Program Reduced Hospital Care by 50%

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That model aligns to a large degree with that used within the Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) payment demonstration from the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation, according to study author and research scientist Dr. Greg Sachs with the Indiana University Center for Aging Research at Regenstrief Institute.