Psychedelic medicines may represent a new frontier for end-of-life care, as well as psychiatric treatment. While these substances — including LSD, MDMA, psilocybin and ketamine, among others — remain illegal, grass roots support for decriminalization or medical use is growing...

More hospices have embraced home-based primary care in recent years. Providers pursuing these opportunities are carefully weighing their options, including whether they should partner with existing practices or offer those services themselves...

Anne Cotton had enjoyed her years at an assisted living facility in Corvallis, Ore. But at 89, her health problems began to mount: heart failure, weakness from post-polio syndrome, a 30-pound weight loss in a year...

Teleios Collaborative Network (TCN) announced the addition of Hospice of Eastern Idaho to its network. Hospice of Eastern Idaho is Southeast Idaho’s only nonprofit hospice organization...

The Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) has unveiled a new strategy designed to foster equitable patient outcomes through “high-quality, affordable, person-centered care.”

I am struck by a cruel irony in healthcare for many people of color. Throughout our lives, we worry that healthcare workers dismiss our pain and concerns. Too many of us don’t get enough care for economic reasons...

Questions abound about the potential long-term impacts of the value-based insurance design (VBID) demonstration, known as the Medicare Advantage (MA) hospice carve-in.

A need to socially distance, along with regulatory waivers, led to a boom of telehealth utilization in hospice, making it a critical connection linking providers to patients.

Globally, about 1 in 10 of individuals in need of palliative care actually receive it even as demand rises, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). The organization expects the need for palliative care to double by 2060...