{"id":17968,"date":"2021-04-07T09:12:26","date_gmt":"2021-04-07T13:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=17968"},"modified":"2021-04-07T09:12:26","modified_gmt":"2021-04-07T13:12:26","slug":"the-prevalence-of-advance-care-planning-remains-low","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=17968","title":{"rendered":"The prevalence of advance care planning remains low."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As part of Medicare\u2019s annual wellness visit, Medicare started to reimburse providers for advance care planning; however, the prevalence of advance care planning remains low. A recent study found a \u201clack of training has been a barrier for doctors to engage in such care planning conversations, which aim to give patients medical care consistent with their wishes and values as well as discuss end-of-life care issues.\u201d According to the study, \u201cfewer than 7.5 percent of beneficiaries who experienced a recent onset of any of the conditions studied here or who died within the year had an advance planning claim.\u201d Read the article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fiercehealthcare.com\/practices\/study-finds-low-prevalence-advance-care-planning-among-medicare-beneficiaries-cite-low\">here\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/research-data.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8434\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/research-data-300x211.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"211\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/research-data-300x211.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/research-data-130x90.jpg 130w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/research-data.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice:<\/strong> The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of Medicare\u2019s annual wellness visit, Medicare started to reimburse providers for advance care planning; however, the prevalence of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,34,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging","category-end-of-life","category-medicare-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17968"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17969,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17968\/revisions\/17969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}