"Culture Clash No More: Integration and Coordination of Disease Treatment and Palliative Care" include the following learning objectives: the limitations of the Medicare hospice benefit; defining three models of palliative care; identifying the...
This article discusses strategies for delivering serious news. Several common frameworks are identified (ABCDE, BREAKS, SPIKES, Nurse). It is written from a physician perspective.
Adults with serious illness have one or more conditions, such as cancer or dementia, that cause health and functional decline and, over time, eventually lead to death. People with serious illness require effective patient-clinician communication about...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) offers information to patients and families about medicare and medicaid hospice benefits. General information, types of hospice care and insurance coverage options can be found here. CMS also...
Medicare coverage of hospice depends on a physician’s certification that an individual’s prognosis is a life expectancy of six months or less if the terminal illness runs its normal course. This LCD describes guidelines to be used by National...