COVID-19: End-of-Life Care for Patients and Providers
Are health care systems, patients, and families prepared for tough conversations and decisions about health care preferences and medical interventions?
Report: Medicare’s Hospital Post-Acute Care Transfer Policy to Hospice
Aggressive moves by payers teaming up with big players such as CVS are advancing their healthcare programs into the home. How does this impact healthcare organizations?
Insight Report: Payment Recommendations 2021
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission recommended that Congress reduce the payments for Home Health by 7% in 2021.
More Deaths Occur in the Home vs. Hospital and Nursing Facilities
For the first time since the early 20th century, the home has become the common place among American’s dying of natural causes.
Pre-Hospice Home-Based Transition Program
Sharp HealthCare pre-hospice program called Transitions, is designed to give elderly patients the care they want at home and keep them out of the hospital.
Reducing Falls and Falls with Injury in HealthEast Hospice Patient Population
Multidisciplinary teams across the care continuum work each day to determine the best ways to identify the highest risk patients.
Payers Expanding Into Palliative Care
Payers and Alternative Payment Models (APMs) are turning to palliative care programs as a way to offer value-based end-of-life care.
Hospice Study: Increasing Hospice Decreases Hospital Readmissions Among All Nursing Homes
Increasing hospice services can reduce hospital admissions among all residents of a nursing home, including those not enrolled in hospice.
Home-Based Palliative Care Models
Palliative care focuses on relieving patients’ stress, pain and other symptoms as their health declines, and it helps them maintain their quality of life.
Hospice Quality of Care Varies
In a large cohort study, hospice visits in the last 2 days of life by professional staff varied by race, hospice program, and geographic region.
Palliative Care and Cancer Insights
Despite recommendations to the contrary, only about half of elderly patients with advanced cancer receive palliative care.
Palliative Care Oncology Guidelines
A new guidance statement to define high-quality primary palliative care delivery in medical oncology has been developed by ASCO and AAHPM.
End-of-Life Medicare Spending and the Cost of Care Insights
Spending on Medicare beneficiaries in their last year of life accounts for about 25% of total Medicare spending on beneficiaries age 65 or older.
The Paradigm Shift for Hospice Providers Begins
Four key trends in hospice care are contributing to a paradigm shift and impacting the future of Medicare hospice providers and other providers.
Palliative Care and Payer Value-Based Contracting
Highmark offers unique palliative care services to its Medicare Advantage members and supports hospital palliative care through value-based contracts.
ACOs: Three Approaches to Improve End-of-Life Care
The ACO model has the right incentives to reduce variation, spur innovation, and improve quality in end-of-life (EOL) care
ACO and Home-Based Palliative Care Model Reduce Costs
A home-based palliative care program tested within an ACO showed cost savings and reduced hospital admissions for patients near the end of life.
