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Palliative Providers Navigate Potential ‘Disastrous’ Impacts Amid Telehealth Uncertainties

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Palliative patient populations nationwide are at risk of increased symptom burden and suffering if telehealth flexibilities set forth during the pandemic were to end as planned this year, Fratkin said. They would have hassles and limited support structures related to taking their progressively ill selves to be seen by a doctor in person.

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2024’s Palliative Care Payment Trends Provide ‘Plethora of Data’ for Future Policymaking

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The needle moved forward with the 2023 physician fee schedule rule, which included new coding and payment for family caregiver training and allowed for reimbursement for services that address social determinants, among other topics. The 2025 final rule stipulated that caregiving education can be done via telehealth or in person.

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C-TAC Urges CMS to Better Address Caregiver Support, Social Determinants in Proposed 2024 Physician Fee Schedule

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The Coalition to Transform Advanced Care (C-TAC) recently called for greater support for family caregivers and social determinants of health in fee-for-service payment models that include palliative care. The proposed rule lacks reimbursement and resources for caregivers of serious illness patients and families, according to C-TAC.

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Intentionally Interprofessional Care: DorAnne Donesky, Michelle Milic, Naomi Saks, & Cara Wallace

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Alex 04:05 Maybe I’ll overdub something on the audio version. I am shocked at how much growth there was for me personally on the subject area. How do we synergize our expertise in a way that we co create a care plan. Is constant, and we co create a plan together. We’ll see. There is intentionality to it.

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Hospice in Prison Part 1: An interview with Michele DiTomas and Keith Knauf

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The person didn’t believe in the medications. This is all audio right now. And we pushed back against that and explained, but it was some work to get to the place where that was understood that that’s part of the person’s medical complexity. In many cases, the families were the victims of the crime.

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What does the future of home infusion look like? A conversation with Option Care Health

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Could clients and their families be empowered toward greater self-management, with technology like portals keeping everyone up to date on the care plan? The pandemic has now reshaped the thinking around in-person visits.

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RCT of Palliative Care for Heart Failure and Lung Disease: David Bekelman and Lyndsay DeGroot

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You can also listen to an audio interview with Alex and JAMA Deputy Editor Preeti Malani about this study and the other RCT of default palliative care for hospitalized older adults with noncancer serious illness published in the same issue. Credit to my wife Cindy for piano on the audio-only version of Ben Rector’s The Best is Yet to Come.