Outpatient Palliative Care: A Natural Partnership with Hospice (726)
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Cost savings and enhanced hospice enrollment with a home-based palliative care program implemented as a hospice-private payer partnership.
BACKGROUND In the United States, 5% of the population is responsible for nearly half of all health care expenditures, with a large concentration of spending driven by individuals with expensive chronic conditions in their last year of life. Outpatient palliative care under the Medicare Hospice Benefit excludes a large proportion of the chronically ill and there is widespread recognition that in...
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1Associate Professor of Sociology, Department of Behavioral Sciences, Winston-Salem State University, Winston-Salem, NC 27110, USA 2Associate Professor of Gerontology, Department of Behavioral Sciences, Winston-Salem State University, Winston-Salem, NC 27110, USA *Corresponding author Cecile N. Yancu, PhD Associate Professor of Sociology Department of Behavioral Sciences Winston-Salem State Uni...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0885-3924
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2010.10.205