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Palliative Care, Health Equity Growing in Medicare Advantage

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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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Advance Care Planning Billing Rules Impede Equitable Access

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On the patient side, Medicare beneficiaries face out-of-pocket costs when advance care planning is performed in any setting outside of an annual wellness visit. the bill proposed to remove Medicare beneficiary cost-sharing while also widening the scope of staff who can bill for these services. Introduced by U.S.

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Providers Work to Solve Palliative Care’s Biggest Growing Pains

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Last year and early 2023 has brought the launch of palliative care programs at organizations such as Florida-based Big Bend Hospice and Virginia-based Blue Ridge Hospice , among others. It also raises the bar on collaboration with geriatric populations.” That’s a different payer mix.

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

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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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