Title
Recent Trends in the Use of Medicare Advance Care Planning Codes
UMMS Affiliation
Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences
Publication Date
2020-12-01
Document Type
Article
Disciplines
Epidemiology | Geriatrics | Health Policy | Health Services Administration | Health Services Research | Palliative Care
Abstract
Advance Care Planning (ACP) is associated with increased hospice use and palliative care, decreased use of life-sustaining treatments, and greater patient and family satisfaction and peace of mind.The emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic, with its associated high mortality rate and potential need to ration scarce resources, has brought ACP to the forefront of public discourse. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) began payment for ACP services in 2016, but uptake has been slow. In this report we extend previous evaluations of ACP billing code usage to understand trends in uptake by patients and in the use of codes by providers covering the first three years of the policy change.
DOI of Published Version
10.1089/jpm.2020.0437
Source
Weissman JS, Gazarian P, Reich A, Tjia J, Prigerson HG, Sturgeon D, Manful A. Recent Trends in the Use of Medicare Advance Care Planning Codes. J Palliat Med. 2020 Dec;23(12):1568-1570. doi: 10.1089/jpm.2020.0437. PMID: 33306008; PMCID: PMC7698819. Link to article on publisher's site
Journal/Book/Conference Title
Journal of palliative medicine
PubMed ID
33306008
Related Resources
Repository Citation
Weissman JS, Gazarian P, Reich A, Tjia J, Prigerson HG, Sturgeon D, Manful A. (2020). Recent Trends in the Use of Medicare Advance Care Planning Codes. Population and Quantitative Health Sciences Publications. https://doi.org/10.1089/jpm.2020.0437. Retrieved from https://escholarship.umassmed.edu/qhs_pp/1398