Hospice News
JANUARY 29, 2024
Palliative care in general can reduce health care costs by more than $4,000 per patient, according to a July 2017 study in Health Affairs. 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.
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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GeriPal
JANUARY 18, 2024
Jessie, last time we had you on in 2017, we asked you the question, should palliative care fellowship training include management of chronic pain? 2017 podcast. Jessie, we’re delighted to welcome you back as well. Maybe we’ll get to talking about that today. Jessie, welcome back to GeriPal. That was from our what?
GeriPal
MARCH 3, 2022
I want to say like 2017, 2018, something like that. He, his Twitter feed though is brilliant. And then we linked that cohort with administrative data, which allowed me to pull out the ICU admissions in addition to manually abstracting all of the paper data for the managed Medicare participants. It was amazing. Alex: Yeah.
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