Sourcebook : Improving Care for the End of Life: A Sourcebook for Health Care Managers and Clinicians : 9.4 What Innovators Need to Know

• Medicare does pay for services to those with serious and eventually fatal illnesses.
• Billing Medicare can be very complex and requires focused attention.
• Because of geographic differences in fiscal intermediary practices, institutions must get to know their own fiscal intermediaries.
• Programs that want to develop and offer palliative care and hospice services might first focus on a small set of services in a specific setting, such as a palliative care consult in a hospital unit.

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This online version of the book Improving Care for the End of Life: A Sourcebook for Health Care Managers and Clinicians is provided with permission of Americans for Better Care of the Dying [ www.abcd-caring.org ] and Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. For further information on quality improvement in end-of-life care visit The Washington Home Center for Palliative Care Studies [ www.medicaring.org ].