Hospice News September 9, 2019
As more of the U.S. health care system migrates towards value-based care, efforts on the part of payers and other stakeholders to promote advance care planning could lead to increased hospice utilization as well as earlier admission of prospective patients.
Advance care planning is designed to identify patients’ wishes, goals, and desires for their care up to and including the end of life, or if they become unable to communicate or make decisions. A key component of advance care plans is a Provider Order for Life Sustaining Treatment (POLST) form, as well as documentation of a proxy to make decisions on behalf of the patient should they become unresponsive.
These plans can reduce hospitalizations by as much as 26%, reduce...
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