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Enhancing Care Coordination Can Give Hospices An Edge in Value-Based Models

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As more health care reimbursement migrates towards value-based payment models, providers will need to master the art of care coordination. Seriously ill patients can easily fall through the cracks in a fragmented health care system, leading to poorer outcomes and costly hospital stays and emergency department visits.

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Why Hospices Are Pursuing Home-Based Primary Care

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As health care stakeholders work to improve care coordination, more hospices are exploring home-based primary care. million home-based primary care visits during 2016, up from less than 1 million in 1996, the study found. million primary care visits in 2016.

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Key to the Continuum: Hospice Providers Eye Primary Care Businesses

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million home-based primary care visits during 2016, up from less than 1 million in 1996, the study found. million primary care visits in 2016. A watchword for many value-based payment models is care coordination. Patients in the United States received more than 2.2

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Avera at Home Gets Personal with Kore Cares Joint Venture

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Kore Cares will retain its name to provide “continuity” for patients and referral sources, according to the announcement. Established in 2016, Kore Cares is based in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and provides personal, home-based care services to seniors in that area.

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HHS: Hospice, Post-Acute Providers Lag on EMR Interoperability

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“These gaps are becoming increasingly apparent due to a multitude of factors that include the general trend of an aging population and a health care system that is increasingly asked to deliver care for older adults with multiple chronic conditions.”

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CMMI Working on Payment Models That Include Palliative Care

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“As a country, we really need to get formalization around what palliative care is going to mean in a community-based setting, the services, and who is going to provide those services.”. CMS launched the MCCM in 2016 to explore the idea of allowing hospice patients to receive concurrent curative care.

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Partners In Care, Summit Health Join Forces on Palliative Care

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Hagfors previously served as CEO of the Bend Memorial Clinic – now known as Summit Health – from 2011 to 2016. Summit Health offers primary, urgent and specialty care services, including palliative care. The two providers will use a central medical record platform to further improve care coordination.