Hospice News
JULY 11, 2023
Samaritan Healthcare & Hospice launched its palliative care service line in 2007, mainly providing these services in hospital-based settings. A small number [of payers are] commercial, and then you’ve got Medicaid and several government payer pieces, with Medicare tending to be viewed as a lower payer for these services,” Spragens said.
GeriPal
FEBRUARY 29, 2024
Our task is simple, we are going to be sampling each of these hot chicken wings while we ask Eric and Alex questions related to Palliative care and Geriatrics. I’m most proud that when we started the blog, there was some tension between Geriatrics and Palliative care. They’ve all been laid out for you. Anne: Right.
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GeriPal
JUNE 30, 2022
And I learned, so you have this wonderful paper that just came out in JAGS, Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, titled Patients Living with Dementia Have Worse Outcomes When Undergoing High-Risk Procedures. So we looked at Medicare data, we called out everything that had this 1% cutoff or higher. Joel may know. Joel: Yeah.
GeriPal
AUGUST 11, 2022
Myself personally, I was in PCEP at Harvard, I think like 2007 or something with Rachelle Bernacki and a bunch of other great people. Was before the Medicare hospice benefit. And one was the Medicare hospice benefit. Susan: Beautiful. Eric: So Susan, you have touched so many people in the field of hospice palliative medicine.
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