Thursday, July 21 | Thought Leadership, Post-Acute Care, Value-based Care
The demand for palliative care is growing, yet access to services remains a challenge.
Consider these stats:
However, the lack of access is beginning to change as payers begin to see the clinical and financial benefits of community-based, interdisciplinary palliative care.
Palliative care, which aims to provide relief from the symptoms and stress of a serious illness, is most often provided by hospice organizations. According to the Center to Advance Palliative Care, about 50% of community-based palliative care providers are hospices.
A rising number of hospices have been diversifying their services to engage patients further upstream and take advantage of emerging value-based payment models, with palliative care as one of the most common new business lines.
Jim Parker, editor of Hospice News, joined Netsmart’s Mike Valentine (CEO) and Dawn Iddings (Sr. VP/Managing Dir., Post-Acute) in a recent Netsmart CareThreads podcast to talk about improving access and education of palliative care, the pitfalls and benefits of entering new value-based payment models and the types of technology needed to succeed with these models.
Parker says that palliative care can consist of different models, though he did list three defining characteristics.
To hear these thought leaders discuss why so many leading hospices are launching palliative care service lines and how they are succeeding, click here to listen to the podcast.
Sources:
Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC)
National Academy of State Health Policy
Thursday, August 11 | Human Services,Thought Leadership,Value-based Care
In our recent blog, Origins of Peer Support for Individuals with Mental Illness, we discussed how the value of peers in support of the mentally ill has been recognized for a very long time, but its popularity varied since its first reported use in France in the 1800s. The voices of those with serious mental illness were finally being heard, helping change attitudes from professional protectiveness to “Nothing about us without us.” In this section we will discuss the more recent history of peers in the United States and how the growth of peer support varied between different countries.
MoreThursday, July 28 | Human Services,Thought Leadership,Value-based Care
Peers have gained increased visibility and prominence in today’s behavioral health system. In this six-part blog series, we will discuss how the peer movement evolved in mental health and substance use care. We will also share the current state of the peer movement and what the future looks like for these services. In the first part of the series, we begin by looking at the interesting history of peer support for individuals with mental illness that dates back more than 200 years.
MoreThursday, July 21 | Thought Leadership,Post-Acute Care,Value-based Care
Palliative care has seen tremendous growth as providers have begun to unlock the keys to profitability through value-based contracts. Now considered one of the highest demand and most needed services in the post-acute care continuum, industry leaders unpack the skills need to expand service lines, an advanced technology platform, interoperability, and pursuing a value-based contract to improve patient care and reduce costs.
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