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The Proper Positioning of Community-Based Palliative Care in the American Healthcare Continuum

Putting Down Roots:

Discuss factors influencing emerging payment and delivery models in U.S.

healthcareArticulate the

valueproposition of

community-based palliative

care

Describe specific

payment and delivery models

of community-based palliative

care

Palliate

make (a disease or its symptoms) less severe or unpleasant without removing the cause.synonyms:alleviate, ease, relieve, soothe, take the edge off, assuage, moderate, temper, diminish, decrease, blunt, deaden

disguise the seriousness or gravity of.synonyms:disguise, hide, gloss over, conceal, cover (up), camouflage, mask

Collaboratework jointly on an activity, especially

to produce or create something.synonyms: co-operate, join forces,

team up, band together, work together, participate, combine, ally

cooperate traitorously with an enemy.

synonyms: collude, conspire, fraternize, co-operate, consort,

sympathize, be in cahoots

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Health Consequences of Caregiver Burden63% Higher Mortality Rate among Caregivers Experiencing Strain

-Sculz R & Beach SR (1999) Caregiving as a risk factor for mortality: The Caregiver Health Effects study. JAMA; 282: 2215-2219.

Alzheimer's DiseaseAverage Course:

8-10 Years

Lays Waste to a Person's:

Personality

Intellect

Ability to Function

Hospital Readmissions

$17.4 billion

Entire Hospice Industry

$14 billion

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Models of Community-Based Palliative Care

Encounter Business

Medicare Part B Billing

Medicare Advantage Billing

Private Insurance Billing

PMPM Payments

ACOs

Health Plans

IPAs

Third Party Providers

Home Health Episode

Through a Medicare-Certified

Home Health Agency