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How Palliative Care Generates Savings, Boosts Hospice Utilization

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Patients that utilized community-based palliative care services were more likely to enroll in hospice further upstream, she indicated. “We There’s about a 20% efficacy rate for the community-based palliative care program on top of hospice, earlier in the home and enrollment in hospice.”

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Palliative Care Momentum Growing Among Hospice Providers

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Hospices are increasingly eying palliative care as a promising growth opportunity, prioritizing expansion in that field over other health care service lines. Survey respondents included nearly 330 hospice and palliative care industry professionals, including owners, executive leaders and managers, among others. It’s evolving.”

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A Palliative Care CMMI Demo Could Ignite Competition for Hospices

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New legislation is leading some hospices to consider what a potential community-based palliative care payment demo would mean for them — as well as what it would look like. I think home health care agencies or Part B medical groups have more experience in collaborating across multiple providers to meet needs,” Silvers told Hospice News.

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Key Research Trends: Long Hospice Stays, Palliative Care Save Medicare Dollars

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The health care space — including hospice — is increasingly shaped by numbers. During the past several years hospice providers have had to become experts in data management in order to remain competitive. Hospices’ cost-savings potential A study published in March revealed that hospice saved Medicare roughly $3.5

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Hospice, Palliative Providers Strategize to Reach Underserved Communities

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But defining the range of communities that specifically lack access to hospice and palliative care can be a moving target. Hospices should apply a wide and varied lens when examining the populations in greatest need of end-of-life care, Garrett indicated. Hospice News photo.) But it’s important to lean towards other communities.

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Incorporating Palliative Care in Hospice: The Tech Perspective

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As the hospice landscape shifts and hospice care is delivered more widely, another care type has made entry into the conversation: palliative care. Based upon the request of a hospice customer, Axxess began to develop a palliative care-specific technology platform in 2021. But it’s proving outcomes and it’s making waves.”

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Study: 40% of Adults Don’t Want to Talk About Palliative Care

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All Ireland Institute of Hospice and Palliative Care (AIIHPC ) conducted the research on public perceptions of palliative care. The post Study: 40% of Adults Don’t Want to Talk About Palliative Care appeared first on Hospice News. An Irish study found that 4 in 10 adults prefer not to think or discuss palliative care.