{"id":5878,"date":"2017-02-15T09:18:53","date_gmt":"2017-02-15T14:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=5878"},"modified":"2017-02-15T09:18:53","modified_gmt":"2017-02-15T14:18:53","slug":"how-can-we-increase-the-use-of-palliative-care-in-medicare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=5878","title":{"rendered":"How Can We Increase The Use Of Palliative Care In Medicare?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Donald Taylor, Matthew Harker, Andrew Olson and Janet Bull for <em>Health Affairs Blog, Posted February 13, 2017)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Health Affairs<\/em> by Project HOPE \u2013 The People-to-People Health Foundation, Inc<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>In August, 2016, a 93-year-old woman\u2014the grandmother of one of this Blog post\u2019s authors\u2014died of congestive heart failure, five weeks after she underwent surgery to receive a pacemaker. There were alternative care options, but they were not offered to her and her family in a timely manner, at least in part because of Medicare\u2019s long-standing payment rules that value procedures over discussion of goals and alleviation of symptoms. Medicare paid for the surgery and pacemaker with no questions asked, even though the procedure was, in retrospect, unproductive, wasteful, and even harmful from the family\u2019s perspective. <a href=\"http:\/\/healthaffairs.org\/blog\/2017\/02\/13\/how-can-we-increase-the-use-of-palliative-care-in-medicare\/\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/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<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Donald Taylor, Matthew Harker, Andrew Olson and Janet Bull for Health Affairs Blog, Posted February 13, 2017) Health Affairs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medicare-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5878","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=5878"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5879,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5878\/revisions\/5879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}