Hospice News

JUNE 5, 2023

The slide that the previous panelists put up about the supplemental benefit, that’s only nursing and social work because a prescribing clinician is covered under part B, so you can’t make it supplemental. We don’t really have a palliative care resource.” What’s the point?

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GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

We were really interested in the gap that exists after patients leave the ED or an observation status and go home, so what we did is we randomized patients, it was patient-level randomization, to either nurse-led telephonic care for six months, or specialty outpatient palliative care for six months. Was this the same?

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

We do have access to palliative care social work in the outpatient setting, and we have a nurse. We don’t have pastoral care actually readily available for our ambulatory patients. We did not want them to already have seen home palliative care. Eric 20:26 And that includes home hospice care.

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