Home-based advanced illness management program shows reductions in end-of-life acute care utilization.

Includes information and tools for palliative care program leaders on making the case for palliative care services in public hospitals.

Toolkit to help palliative care professionals better understand current disparities in palliative care outcomes and design more equitable, patient-centered care approaches.

While the Medicare hospice benefit has historically been designed to meet the needs of patients with cancer, people with dementia and their caregivers experience better outcomes when enrolled in hospice.

Medicare beneficiaries with dementia, especially Black and Hispanic patients, often receive poor quality end-of-life care.

This tool can be used to guide state policy planning for a community-based palliative care benefit in Medicaid.

Describes the core elements and evidence base behind a home- and community-based palliative care model that was designed by stakeholders to support the health needs of people with serious illness.

This guide describes key strategies for health plans, accountable care organizations, and health systems to improve care for people with serious illness.

Home-based palliative care providers explore key facilitators and barriers to effectively delivering care within a value-based payment environment.

Advance care planning more than one month prior to death is associated with decreased acute care utilization at the end of life and in-hospital death for people with serious illness.

Looked at the provider and payer relationship and discussed how successful partnerships between these two stakeholders can create sustainable and efficacious home and community based palliative care programs.

Analysis of 310 health systems showed gaps in opioid receipt between Black and white patients, especially on dosage, which may be related to racial bias among clinicians.

Synthesis of studies on effective home-based palliative care emphasizes essential elements for creating a quality program.

This toolkit shares business strategies, sample protocols, and best practice clinical tools for health care providers interested in developing a home-based palliative care program.

A practical guide for payers to create a home-based palliative care program centered upon a value-based case example from a payer’s perspective.

A home-based palliative care program in a full-risk financial arrangement showed consistent cost savings and lower hospital utilization across a 10-year period.

A home-based palliative care program using an interdisciplinary care team reduces hospital costs and unnecessary health care utilization for Medicare Advantage beneficiaries.

A community-based palliative care program reduced medical costs, intensive care unit (ICU) admissions, hospital admissions, and days spent in the hospital for Medicare Advantage members with serious illness.

Creating a palliative care program to meet the needs of low-income communities requires solutions that are patient centered and supportive of the clinical care team.