Medical Care at Home Comes of Age
Provides an overview of home-based medical care models, the patients that they serve, and their robust evidence base.
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Medicare-Medicaid Integration: A Reference Guide to Emerging Evidence and Technical Assistance Tools
This reference guide summarizes a set of curated resources to help key stakeholders better understand both the needs of the dually eligible population and emerging evidence and practical approaches for advancing Medicare-Medicaid integration.
Implementation Tool
High-Cost Dual Eligibles' Service Use Demonstrates the Need for Supportive and Palliative Models of Care
Describes the needs of distinct subpopulations within the dually eligible population with highly complex needs, along with opportunities for tailored interventions that may reduce health care spending.
Peer-Reviewed Article
Practice Considerations for Trauma-Informed Care at End of Life
Applying principles of trauma-informed care for patients at end of life.
Peer-Reviewed Article
Exploring Best Practices in Serious Illness Care for Medicare Advantage and Accountable Care Organizations
Highlights experiences from the Center to Advance Palliative Care’s Medicare Advantage and ACO Learning Communities with strategies for improving serious illness care, as well as resources that health plans and ACOs can use to drive better value and improve the quality of life for those living with serious illness.
Blog
September 2020
The Guide to Integrating Palliative Care into Population Management
Practical strategies for health plans and ACOs to improve care for patients with serious illness.
Implementation Tool
Driving Improvements in Hospital Care through Palliative Care Quality Incentives
Describes how two health plans — Anthem, Inc. and Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield —organizations introduced a palliative care measure into their hospital value-based payment programs, which has led to significant improvements in access to palliative care for their seriously ill members.
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June 2020
A Beacon for Dark Times: Palliative Care Support During the Coronavirus Pandemic
Hospital system call line expands access to palliative care supports amid COVID-19.
Peer-Reviewed Article
ACO Serious Illness Care: Survey and Case Studies Depict Current Challenges and Future Opportunities
How ACOs are addressing serious illness.
Peer-Reviewed Article
An Outsourcing Strategy to Expand the Use of Palliative Care
Describes Summit Medical Group’s experience integrating palliative care services and offers advice for other ACOs that are struggling to expand palliative care services and looking for a path forward.
Blog
April 2019
Effect of the Serious Illness Care Program in Outpatient Oncology: A Cluster Randomized Clinical Trial
Improving communication with patients with advanced cancer
Peer-Reviewed Article
The Serious Illness Care Program at Ariadne Labs
Rachelle Bernacki, MD, discusses developing, implementing, and scaling the Serious Illness Care Program at Ariadne Labs, including a few surprises and challenges from along the way.
Blog
March 2019
Innovations in Medicare Advantage to Improve Care for Seriously Ill Patients
This resource describes how MA could lead the way in diffusing new care and payment models.
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The Case for Hospital Palliative Care
Palliative care is appropriate at any stage of illness and can be provided alongside curative treatment.
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The Cost-Effectiveness of Clinical Nurse Specialist–Led Interventions in Palliative Care
Clinical Nurse Specialists are playing a greater role in palliative care, but evidence on their cost-effectiveness is mixed.
Peer-Reviewed Article
Toward a Serious Illness Program Design and Implementation Framework
This framework can help you design programs for patients with serious illnesses.
Peer-Reviewed Article
Serious Illness Strategies for Health Plans and Accountable Care Organizations
A new framework for providing care to patients with serious illness.
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Serious Illness Conversation Guide
This conversation guide includes specific steps and language for talking about serious illness.
Implementation Tool
July 2017
Strategies for Change—A Collaborative Journey to Transform Advanced Illness Care
Person-centered preferences can inform approaches to advanced illness care
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