Improving Care for People with Serious Illness Through Innovative Payer-Provider Partnerships

Authors
Emily Warner
Tom Gualtieri-Reed
Implementation Tool
January 2014

Palliative care can lead to longer survival and better quality of life for patients, while offering a high-leverage opportunity to reduce costs.

  • This resource describes three palliative care delivery models: hospital, community-based, and hospice.
  • Essential benefits of palliative care include pain and symptom management, goal setting, family caregiver support, and practical and social support.
  • Palliative care involves interdisciplinary team-based care and a 24/7 meaningful clinical response.
  • Payers can promote palliative care by including a palliative care consultation as a standard benefit with no copay and offering incentive payments for a palliative care consultation.
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