By:
ThoroughCare
May 14th, 2024
Studies show that nearly 75% of people will need help making medical decisions. Less than 25% have formally documented their end-of-life care wishes.
Care Coordination | Advance Care Planning
By:
ThoroughCare
April 10th, 2024
In times of emergency, or at the end of life, you might be unable to communicate your medical treatment preferences. Although you may assume that your loved ones know what you would want, that is not always the case.
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By:
ThoroughCare
April 9th, 2024
Advance Care Planning (ACP) adoption is picking up steam, but documented barriers keep physicians and patients from engaging more widely. A team-based care management approach can overcome those barriers, yielding numerous benefits for the provider, patients, and their families.
By:
ThoroughCare
April 9th, 2024
Care management provides the best opportunity to offer Advance Care Planning.
By:
ThoroughCare
March 26th, 2024
Advance Care Planning (ACP) is a highly impactful service to add to a provider’s practice. However, confusion around who can deliver and bill these services keeps healthcare organizations from fully embracing and adopting the offering.
By:
ThoroughCare
March 5th, 2024
Since 2016, Medicare has reimbursed physicians for Advance Care Planning (ACP) counseling. Yet, despite studies indicating that most patients would rather die at home than in a hospital or nursing home, more than 25% do not die in their location of choice.
Care Coordination | Annual Wellness Visit | Advance Care Planning | CPT codes
By:
ThoroughCare
February 13th, 2024
With an Annual Wellness Visit (AWV), your patient receives an appropriate opportunity to review Advance Care Planning (ACP). You can use this yearly assessment as a time to cover why advanced planning can be of great benefit. In this video, we discuss everything you need to know about the 2024 CPT codes, billing requirements, and reimbursements for Advance Care Planning (ACP), so you can properly bill for this program and maximize your revenue. This includes code 99497 and add-on code 99498.
Annual Wellness Visit | Advance Care Planning | Social Determinants of Health | CPT codes
By:
ThoroughCare
February 12th, 2024
Advance Care Planning | Patient Engagement
By:
ThoroughCare
February 6th, 2024
Advance Care Planning (ACP) adoption has been slow because clinicians don’t have ample time or are uncomfortable with the topic; patients tend to associate ACP with end-of-life.
Value-Based Care | Advance Care Planning
By:
ThoroughCare
December 5th, 2023
Healthcare’s goal is to cure. However, Advance Care Planning (ACP), or end-of-life planning, can address the tension between care at all costs and ensuring an individual’s wishes are met when they can’t speak for themselves.