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Key to the Continuum: Hospice Providers Eye Primary Care Businesses

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million home-based primary care visits during 2016, up from less than 1 million in 1996, the study found. Patients in assisted living facilities, group homes, and other facilities received 3.2 million primary care visits in 2016. A watchword for many value-based payment models is care coordination.

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Blue Ridge Hospice CEO: Embrace Value-Based Transformation

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So far half of the palliative care consults that we’ve been asked to provide have converted to hospice care. We have started in skilled nursing facilities and assisted living facilities, and we have done some home-based palliative care. We intend to provide consults in all of our service areas.

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