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Keys to Effective Palliative Care Training Models

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Emerging training models More palliative care education pathways have emerged in recent years, including a virtual reality-based training program that Brigham and Women’s Hospital launched into developing in November 2023. Nonetheless, we have a long way to go. What’s out there is still relatively insufficient.

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Palliative Care, Health Equity Growing in Medicare Advantage

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This is a rise from 180 MA plans in 2023 offering palliative services and 64 MA plans in 2020. Freeland specializes in geriatrics, advance care planning and home-based primary care. Reimbursement for community-based palliative care is gaining ground in the Medicare Advantage realm.

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Providers Work to Solve Palliative Care’s Biggest Growing Pains

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Strains on reimbursement, referrals and staffing represent the biggest obstacles to palliative care providers’ viability and growth. The New Jersey-based nonprofit offers hospice and palliative care, among other services. The New Jersey-based nonprofit offers hospice and palliative care, among other services.

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SCAN Group, CareOregon to Combine as HealthRight Group in 2023

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SCAN Group and CareOregon have agreed to join forces in 2023 as a new organization called HealthRight Group. The combination is expected to close in 2023, subject to customary approvals. . SCAN was poised to join the hospice component of the value-based insurance design model demonstration in 2023, and those plans remain unchanged.

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GeriPal #HPMParty at the 2023 AAHPM / HPNA Meeting in Montreal

GeriPal

Yup, we are restarting the #HPMParty in Montreal at the 2023 AAHPM/HPNA meeting. The post GeriPal #HPMParty at the 2023 AAHPM / HPNA Meeting in Montreal appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional. Because we are back. And this time, we are doing it in French.

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HSPN Palliative Care: Fireside Chat with Contessa and Netsmart

Hospice News

The conversation took place on April 20, 2023, during the Hospice News Palliative Care Conference. Nikki Davis: I’m a nurse practitioner and have been working in geriatrics and palliative care for about 21 years now. The article below has been edited for length and clarity.

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Evaluating Alternate Payment Models in Hospice and Palliative Care

Hospice News

This discussion took place on September 7, 2023 during the Hospice News ELEVATE Conference. I’m an internist by training and practice for close to 25 years now in a spectrum of medicine from hospital-based care to more recently, geriatrics, hospice, and palliative care. The article below has been edited for length and clarity.