ORLANDO – More than 1.5 million Medicare beneficiaries were enrolled in hospice care for at least one day during 2018, a 17% jump in about four years. While hospice care is useful and compassionate, especially when focusing on quality of life for terminally ill patients, there's a problem that looms: At least 14% of Medicare recipients enrolled in hospice stayed there for more
David Klebonis, COO of Palm Beach Accountable Care Organization, will showcase machine learning models at HIMSS22 that can help drive appropriate hospice referrals and surface other important decision support criteria.