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Advance Care Planning Billing Rules Impede Equitable Access

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Currently, this includes only physicians, physician assistants, clinical nurse specialists and nurse practitioners, along with clinical social workers. “If If you spend more than 30 minutes, billable providers are limited to physicians, nurse practitioners and physician assistants.

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Facility-Bound Hospice Patients Less Likely to Get SIA Visits

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“Based on these results, we find that institutionalized beneficiaries were less likely to receive SIA services, and even among those that did, received shorter visits,” Christian and Plotzke indicated at the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM) and the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association (HPNA) Annual Assembly.

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ICU Patients Benefit from Clinicians with Palliative Care Training

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Nursing instructors should apply nursing students’ experiences of palliative care to improve and develop nursing education and activities to provide the better care knowledge and experience for terminal ill patients in the ICU,” researchers noted in the study. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisc.) and Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.)

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Senate Again Takes Up Hospice, Palliative Staffing Bill

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have reintroduced the Palliative Care and Hospice Education Training Act (PCHETA), designed to bolster the field’s shrinking workforce with federal support. . If enacted, PCHETA would support hospice and palliative care training programs for physicians, nurses, pharmacists, social workers and chaplains.

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Hospices Need a ’Huge Catapult’ to Replenish Workforce

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Hospice and palliative care need greater recognition among disciplines across the board, beyond medicine and nursing, according to Eunju Lee, palliative care social worker at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. This tracks with available data. AAHPM’s chief medical officer, told Hospice News in an email.

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PC Trials at State of Science: Tom LeBlanc, Kate Courtright, & Corita Grudzen

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We have our social workers and our psychologists and we know how to manage these symptoms. Nurses, they also had specific training requirements, so I just want to make it clear. It wasn’t just any nurse. How often did the palliative care team have to see folks? They’re because of the treatment.