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Friday, January 21, 2022 | The Latest Research, Commentary, And News
From Health Affairs

Dear John,

An article in the January issue of Health Affairs focused on barriers to
billing for advance care planning.

Advance Care Planning

Advance care planning (ACP) is a term used to describe when a person
prepares for future management of serious or terminal illness, including
developing an advance care directive or what is sometimes called a
living will.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services introduced Current
Procedural Terminology codes that allow billing for advance care
planning

in fee-for-service Medicare in 2016, but their use remains low.

Based on 272 interviews with key staff from eleven health systems, Keren
Ladin and coauthors identified barriers-ranging from concerns about
patient ethics to workflow burden-that reflect the challenges
associated with using the codes.

"Integrating ACP billing into their workflow proved exceptionally
challenging for clinicians, who had little incentive to overcome these
barriers," they noted.

"Institutions can support ACP billing by monitoring [quality measures]
more closely, setting benchmarks, engaging local champions, and
investing in training and support to ensure that documentation is clear
and achievable with minimal disruption to workflow."

Keren Ladin discussed this research further with Editor-in-Chief Alan
Weil on the most recent episode of A Health Podyssey
.

Listen to our latest podcasts. On today's episode of Health Affairs
This Week, editors talk about how Americans and physicians are coping
with mental health

during the COVID-19 pandemic, physician burnout, and more.

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