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Hospice News
JANUARY 29, 2024
of the country’s total population, according to a 2015 report by the U.S. Palliative care is an evolving field. Though long-established as a medical specialty, these health care services have yet to reach their full potential due to reimbursement pressures, poor awareness and staffing headwinds. Census Bureau.
AAHPM (American Academy of Hospice and Palliative)
AUGUST 11, 2023
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), followed by health plans, usually sets the general tone of quality assessment and incentives, thus influencing the allocation of resources to specific programs in the short and long term. Population health refers to the health outcomes of a specific group or population.
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GeriPal
JANUARY 18, 2024
And Katie, I was going through your Twitter feed, and a tweet I noticed was this one, “All opioid guidelines caution long-term use in people with active substance use disorder.” Katie, welcome back to GeriPal. Katie: Oh my gosh, can’t believe I’ve been here more than once now. Bragging rights. That was from our what?
GeriPal
MARCH 3, 2022
He, his Twitter feed though is brilliant. Julien, let’s start off with, congratulations by the way and Lauren too, the CHEST paper that just got published on Trends in Geriatric Conditions Among Older Adults in the ICU between 1998 and 2015. That will be the last one in his life. Don’t ask anybody. Eric: Yeah. Alex: Yeah.
GeriPal
JUNE 30, 2022
And we know that a third of Medicare beneficiaries undergo surgery in the last year of life with 18% of those occurring in the last month of life. But we know that 30% of all decedents who are Medicare beneficiaries either die from dementia or have an existing diagnosis of dementia, which is something we talk about quite often, Joel and I.
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