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Greater Education Needed to Bring Palliative Care to Cancer Patients

Hospice News

The organization has been holding a series of webinars designed to better educate the oncology community about palliative care. The organization has been holding a series of webinars designed to better educate the oncology community about palliative care. Do most cancer patients have access to palliative care? Are there big gaps?

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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.

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Clinical Capacity Palliative Care Leaders’ Top Concern for 2025

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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

You have this payment for value, not necessarily payment for bundles or episodes of care, but really the value,” Banach told Palliative Care News in a recent webinar. ACOs are groups of physicians, hospitals and other health care providers who come together voluntarily to give coordinated high-quality care to their Medicare patients.

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Hospices Leverage Partnerships to Scale Palliative Care Programs

Hospice News

At Mount Sinai we’re really good at creating new models and proving they work to improve care for the sickest patients with serious illness,” Goldstein told Hospice News during the Palliative Care Executive Webinar Series. But we’re not so good about going out there in the community and figuring out how to bargain with insurance plans.”.

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Palliative Care Needs a Defined Scope to Expand Access, Reimbursement

Hospice News

One of the primary reasons that there is limited access is the fact that we don’t have a clear definition of who qualifies for palliative care,” Booker told Hospice News during the Palliative Executive Webinar Series. “One What are the clinical components that we’re looking for in a patient? What are the guidelines?

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Education Key to Addressing Palliative Care Referral ‘Pain Points’

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Palliative isn’t hospice, you want them to be different programs,” Dedes told Palliative Care News during the Hospice News Sales & Marketing webinar series. Palliative care providers’ largest referral hurdles have been long-rooted in misunderstandings about their services.