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Palliative Care, Health Equity Growing in Medicare Advantage

Hospice News

Reimbursement for community-based palliative care is gaining ground in the Medicare Advantage realm. Palliative care is among the wide range of supplemental benefits that exist within the Medicare Advantage payment landscape. Freeland specializes in geriatrics, advance care planning and home-based primary care.

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Key Research Trends: State CON Laws, Dementia Patient Trajectories Reshaping Hospice

Hospice News

Patients with dementia often have longer hospice stays and require more intensive and expensive levels of care compared to others, drawing the attention around a potential call to change around how the Medicare Hospice Benefit is structured from providers, industry stakeholders and policymakers alike.

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