Medicare reimbursementprimary carequality of lifeWithin a context of an increasing life expectancy and rates of chronic/terminal illnesses, along with technological advances leading to prolonged life, patients' self-determination and quality of life are becoming priorities. Evidence supports that end-of-...
Are regional variations in end-of-life care intensity explained by patient preferences?: a study of the US Medicare population. Med Care. 2007;45(5):386-393. doi:10.1097/01.mlr.0000255248.79308.41 PubMedGoogle ScholarCrossref 11. Frankl D, Oye RK, Bellamy PE. ...
1 Approximately 38% of US adults over 65 years have CKD, corresponding to 20% of traditional Medicare payments (ie, $114 billion annually).2 Telehealth is likely to remain significant to CKD care, bolstered by the Advancing American Kidney Health Initiative and the 2018 Bipartisan Budget Act....
We have also identified three emerging cross-cutting themes. First, while we focused on APP roles in general and there are similarities between different APP roles in secondary care which is doctor-centric, there were key differences between different APPs, especially PAs and NPs. How other clinic...
Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services References Bear RA: Is patient-centered care an outmoded concept? accessed September 15, 2014., [http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2012/04/patientcentered-care-outmoded-concept.html] Institute of Medicine: Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for...
For example, in 2009, the US Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services initiated CED for warfarin PGx testing, given the clinical promise but inconclusiveness or contrary results that had emerged on the back of the few small randomised controlled trials (RCTs) that had been conducted at the ...
As with all palliative care models, HBPC can assist patients with > 6-month prognosis who do not qualify for the Medicare hospice benefit or those who wish to continue receiving life-prolonging therapies unavailable to those on hospice. Seriously ill patients may struggle with transport to ...
Prevalence and scope of advanced practice provider oncology care among Medicare beneficiaries with breast cancer Breast Cancer Res Treat, 179 (1) (2020), pp. 57-65, 10.1007/s10549-019-05447-x View in ScopusGoogle Scholar 113 C Farrell, A Molassiotis, K Beaver, C. Heaven Exploring the scop...
Cost is particularly important because Medicare recently approved coverage of US Food and Drug Administration–approved broad-based genomic sequencing for any solid tumor type.38 The lack of an association between broad-based genomic sequencing and survival is likely multifactorial. First, there were ...
End-of-life Care We used the VA Vital Status file to identify patients who died during follow-up. We used VA and Medicare files to determine whether decedents had received an intensive procedure (CPR, mechanical ventilation, and/or artificial enteral nutrition) during their last month of life ...