Palliative care

A new study predicted accountable care organizations will scale back expansion into home care services if they don’t see a return on their investment.

COVID-19 vaccination mandates, pivotal home care deals, palliative care advances.

The House late Tuesday passed a bill that would delay pending Medicare cuts until April and postpone scheduled PAYGO reductions until 2023.

A two-year partnership between Minneapolis-based palliative care provider Livio Health and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota could help prove the value of home-based palliative care to payers, including...

Most discussion of COVID-19 has focused on hospitals, but as inpatient beds became scarce and people sought other options for care, home health has risen to the challenge, underscoring the benefits it...

The prospect of a palliative care demonstration model got a big boost this week from members of the House Ways and Means Committee.

The COVID-19 pandemic and changing policy perspectives in Washington are “supercharging” interest in palliative care, according to Davis Baird, government affairs director for the National Association...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has disclosed another delay — but no definitive timeline — of its Primary Care First-Seriously Ill Population physician payment model, which the hospice...

The authors say that advance care planning discussions with clinicians are needed earlier.

Despite the many benefits of palliative care for seriously ill people and their families, deeply held cultural traditions and beliefs of some racial and ethnic groups impact the adoption and utilization...