Hospice News October 22, 2021
More hospices have embraced home-based primary care in recent years. Providers pursuing these opportunities are carefully weighing their options, including whether they should partner with existing practices or offer those services themselves.
The gradual move of reimbursement systems to value-based care models is partly fueling a resurgence in home-based primary care, according to a 2018 study in the journal Geriatrics. Patients in the United States received more than 2.2 million home-based primary care visits during 2016, up from less than 1 million in 1996, the study found. Patients in assisted living facilities, group homes and other facilities received 3.2 million primary care visits in 2016.
“For hospice and palliative care organizations and others in the home care space, they see...
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