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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 seniors who reside in Illinois are 85 or older, and 40% of Medicare beneficiaries in the state have four or more chronic conditions, according to HCCI. million primary care visits in 2016.

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Key to the Continuum: Hospice Providers Eye Primary Care Businesses

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“We have an existing group of primary care providers, but we’re very aggressively pursuing acquiring as many primary care providers who are already in the geriatric care space, because when you look at most of the risk-based models — the GUIDE model that’s coming out and ACO REACH,” Ponder Stansel said. “[The

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