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What Hospice VBID’s Ending Means for Palliative Care

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Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ value-based insurance design (VBID) model has largely been met with a sense of relief by providers as they plan new initiatives for palliative care in 2025. The impending demise of the hospice component of U.S. That problem was mirrored in the environment outside of the program.

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Key Palliative Care Trends to Watch in 2024

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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. 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. Palliative care is an evolving field.

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How Palliative Care Drives Change in the Health Care System

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Currently, more than 10,000 individuals become Medicare-eligible each day, a trend expected to last for several more years, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation. 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. Everybody wants to innovate.

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Hospices Leverage Partnerships to Scale Palliative Care Programs

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Tennessee-based Contessa and Mount Sinai first partnered in 2017 to provide these services, adding Mount Sinai’s home health agency into the fold with the expansion. Tennessee-based Contessa and Mount Sinai first partnered in 2017 to provide these services, adding Mount Sinai’s home health agency into the fold with the expansion.

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Forks Community Hospital Launches Palliative Care Program Amid Financial Struggles

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Atlantic General Hospital in Maryland saw costs fall by almost a third after implementing a similar program, according to a 2017 report in Mathematica Policy Research. Another caregiving agency in the area serves patients on Medicaid or Medicare, but their availability is limited. Nevertheless, Forks is all-in on palliative care.

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New Research Proposes ‘Sustainable’ Palliative Care Payment Model

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The American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM) in 2017 proposed that the U.S. This includes numerous calls for dedicated community-based palliative care benefit within Medicare. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) allows Medicare Advantage plans to cover palliative care as a supplemental benefit.

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Many Hospices Need to Step Up Disaster Planning

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In 2017, the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) expanded a Condition of Participation pertaining to disaster preparedness planning. Increasingly, this factors into compliance. Last year, The Joint Commission implemented similar requirements for hospices.

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