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Key Palliative Care Trends to Watch in 2024

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Fee-for-service Medicare, for example, only covers physician and licensed independent practitioner services and does not cover the full range of interdisciplinary palliative care. A number of industry groups and lawmakers have pushed for the establishment of a dedicated palliative care benefit within Medicare.

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Hospice Care versus Home Health Care

Shining Light Hospice

In the next section, we will discuss the differences between Hospice and Home Health care. What Is Hospice Care? Hospice is the care provided for a terminally ill patient who has a life expectancy of six months or less. This ensures proper access to medical, emotional, and spiritual care.

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Holding Onto the Heart of Hospice While Embracing Standardized Quality Outcomes

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For many of us, the opportunity to journey with others as they face serious illness and the end of life in their own unique way is what drew us to hospice in the first place. I have been privileged to provide hospice care to the very young and to those who enjoyed a very long life. Eva was the matriarch of her family.

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AAHPM Board President-Elect Holly Yang: Hospice Regulators Need to Consider Perspectives of Bedside Staff

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She recently spoke with Hospice News about the industry’s changing environment and the potential to revise aspects of the Medicare benefit, as well as top priorities for her upcomiing term at AAHPM. Do you think there are aspects of the Medicare benefit as it’s currently designed that need to be changed or updated?

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