Hospice News April 2, 2025
Financial and logistical challenges can stop the launch of a new palliative care program dead in its tracks. Demonstrating strong quality and cost-saving outcomes is a significant part of building and sustaining these services.
Patient data collection play an important role in examining an organization’s potential capacity for a palliative care service line, said Keith Everett, CEO, ProCare Hospice and founder and principal at the consulting firm TruHue LLC. But the ability to leverage quality data is challenged in the palliative care space, Everett stated.
No dedicated, federally-established reimbursement framework exists that is specific to palliative care, leaving a gap around standardized quality and regulatory measures that can be critical to establishing a new program, according to Everett.
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