POSTED ON MONDAY, July 20, 2020
According to the National Hospice & Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO), the COVID-19 pandemic has shown that there needs to be a community-based palliative benefit.
“COVID-19 has really been a catalyst both for [NHPCO] and for others thinking about this. The pandemic has had a very severe impact on the quality of life of those people that are living with serious illness, when many people have had to social distance or quarantine at home,” said Annie Acs, NHPCO’s director of health policy and innovation. “From an innovation standpoint, we feel like this is the right time to test a community-based palliative care benefit. COVID-19 has really highlighted the need more than ever.”
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