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Through Education and Collaboration Hospices Can Help Shape Value-Based Palliative Care

Hospice News

Palliative care packs a small but meaningful punch in the value-based payment arena. . To successfully negotiate value-based contracts, hospices will need to educate payers about the value of palliative care, according to J. Cameron Muir, M.D., This is the first step toward change, according to Muir. “We

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Preventable and Aggressive Care for Cancer Patients: To the Bitter End

AJN Off the Charts

The authors concluded that this highlights “the need for cancer care programs to implement evidence-based interventions to better manage cancer treatment complications, such as uncontrolled pain, in outpatient and ambulatory settings.” This sounds a lot like palliative care to me.