We’ve added decades to life expectancy. We have not added clarity to how people should plan for these longer lives in terms of work and retirement, financial decisions for an extended old age, healthcare planning, caregiving and housing needs.
Read the latest: "Telemedicine 3.0: How Video Technology Can Support People With Serious Illness". Michael Fratkin, MD explains how video calls can help establish + maintain relationships, and reach more people in need>>https://t.co/RNtN5k2r1S #hpm @DianeEMeier @SaskiaSiderow
Value-based payment is here to stay; physician groups should consider their options and take action. Delighted to have co-authored this article with Jeff Swearingen of investment bank Edgemont Partners.
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#valuebasedcare#MIPS#reimbursement#physicians
If we trust the medical industry to develop treatments, we may get treatments that are profitable, but necessarily the treatments that are best. @RosenthalHealth@CAPCpalliative#CAPCSeminar18
"What we call community based #palliative care is the effort to meet people where they are, and meet the need that people have for home care, care in the office, and long term care settings." - @EdoBanach @DianeEMeier #hpm#palliative @NHPCO_news
Per .@DianeEMeier for some reason pain & symptoms happen after 5pm — only option for many is to call 911 — burden we put on the sick to come to us is unconscionable. We need to bring the care to them. #CAPCSeminar18#thankyou#PalliativeCare@johnahartford
#CAPCSeminar18@EdoBanach : If you want to use the words 'Palliative Care', you need to back it up with a commitment to 'floor' established in the 4th edition of the NCP guidelines. https://t.co/vnfIidhiEZ @CoalitionHPC
The Medicaid-turnout relationship is particularly interesting since more states are poised to expand after this week's election. The likely consequence: More Medicaid voters in 2020. https://t.co/6DvQ0GSv6A
“Before #palliative care, no one really made sure that we understood the diagnosis. No one made sure that we understood the prognosis. No one made sure we understood what was going on” https://t.co/uFkL4v1S0N @NBCNews@maggiemfox#hpm
Thanks @saskiasiderow for the write up on our primary palliative Care work @mayoclinic & @MayoClinicHS to spread #HPM to patients in primary care.
https://t.co/6ts9VmcK91
Check out our recent project! Case studies of palliative care programs successfully operating within alternative payment models @MoffittNews@MayoClinic@OSFHealthCare and Integra Community Care Network. https://t.co/4n1StoiFBv #healthcare#palliativecare