Hospice News February 14, 2025
Partnerships between health care providers and Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) can help to create effective, value-based palliative care models for patients, but navigating the development of those relationships requires communication and a true commitment to collaboration.
These opportunities extend across both the inpatient and community-based settings, with a mind toward improving quality and improving patients’ quality of life.
“ACOs are looking for high-quality care that reduces avoidable crises, and specialty palliative care has been proven to do just that,” Allison Silvers, chief of health care transformation at the Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC), told Palliative Care News. “There is interest in inpatient palliative care, which has been proven to reduce length-of-stay and unnecessary re-admissions, as well as community-based palliative...