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U.S. Senators Call on CMS to Boost Palliative Care Resources

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Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, calling for a payment model demonstration designed to support greater access to palliative care. For more than 40 years, we have seen this type of care approach deliver high-quality care at the end of life. The post U.S.

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ACO Partnerships Could Open Doors for Palliative Care Providers

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To take advantage of those opportunities, more attention might be focused on [the provider’s] own capacity and making sure they can take the volume of patients that might be sent their way,” Allison Silvers, chief of health care transformation at the Center to Advance Palliative Care, told Hospice News. “I

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Hospice Palliative Care: Palliative Care in CMMI Programs

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This article is based on a discussion with Fred Bentley, Managing Director for Medicare Innovation and ATI Advisory, Allison Silvers, Chief of Healthcare Transformation at the Center to Advance Palliative Care and Ryan Klaustermeier, Vice President of Professional Services at Axxess. We spoke earlier about Medicare Advantage.

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Inside agilon health’s Palliative Care Game Plan

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The company is a value-based organization that partners with primary care physicians nationwide to jointly take on the total cost and quality of care for their senior patients through Medicare Advantage or the the U.S. Like many great innovations in health care, it really bubbled up from our community.