Hospice News January 8, 2025
The senior care company agilon health (NYSE: AGL) has scaled a palliative care education model for its physician partners throughout most of the markets they serve.
agilon operates in 30 communities in 12 states. The company partners with primary care physicians across the country to jointly take on the total cost of care via Medicare Advantage or Accountable Care Organization (ACO) programs.
A 2023 study published in the Journal of Pain and Symptom Management found that the primary care-led, integrated approach to palliative care that agilon employs were two-thirds less likely to die in a hospital and on average spent five more days at home near the end of life.
Hospice News sat down with agilon’s CMO, Dr. Karthik Rao,...
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