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Hospice News
JUNE 8, 2022
Thus far, the initiative has yielded positive results, but the process hasn’t always been easy, according to Dr. Gregg VandeKieft, executive medical director of the institute’s Palliative Practice Group. For starters, rural regions are less likely to have a Medicare-certified hospice than urban counties. palliative?care
Pallimed
SEPTEMBER 12, 2022
This unexpectedly and undesirably increased health insurers’ medication costs, including Medicare and Medicaid (22). Moral Entrepreneurs Seize the Opportunity Opioid prescribing increased during the mid-1990s after widespread calls to improve pain management, particularly at the end of life (18-21).
GeriPal
DECEMBER 21, 2023
Don’t get me wrong, the evidence points to cost savings, but as Chris Callahan and Kathleen Unroe pointed out in a JAGS editorial in 2020 “in comprehensive dementia care models, savings may accrue to Medicare, but the expenses accrue to a fluid and unstable network of local service providers, patients, and their families.” 2015, 2016.
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