Hospice News
JANUARY 29, 2024
of the country’s total population, according to a 2015 report by the U.S. Fee-for-service Medicare, for example, only covers physician and licensed independent practitioner services and does not cover the full range of interdisciplinary palliative care. Census Bureau. But they do represent a glimmer of hope.
Hospice News
SEPTEMBER 27, 2023
Payment streams lack what’s needed to support the palliative workforce of clinicians, social workers and spiritual care providers. ACAC was instrumental to the development of the Pioneer Accountable Care Organization (ACO) project that took place between 2011 and 2015 piloted by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI).
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Hospice News
FEBRUARY 2, 2023
And while hospices offer social workers and spiritual care, many families continue to have unmet needs that could impede some patients’ access to hospice. About 21% indicated that their own health was poor in 2020, up from 17% in 2015. The state of caregiving Many of the barriers are financial. In 2010, the U.S.
Hospice News
JANUARY 31, 2024
In the United States, about 177,360 children have conditions that warrant palliative care on an annual basis, according to the 2015 report “Dying in America: Improving Quality and Honoring Individual Preferences Near the End of Life,” published by the National Academies Press.
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.
GeriPal
AUGUST 25, 2022
I had looked at a research article that had recently evaluated the prevalence of private equity transactions in the hospice market and noted that there was a pretty substantial uptick in the past decade, and really over the course of say around 2015 to 2019. Alex: Can I ask a question? Melissa, were you a banker before you did research?
GeriPal
OCTOBER 26, 2023
I moved to Boston in 2015 to start my PhD and I’ve always worked clinically at MGH during the process, but I was very interested in this notion of measuring function and frailty. They’re really great, the palliative care social worker and chaplain. What are other options? It’s a bigger picture.
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