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Podcast: A Health Podyssey
Episode: Keren Ladin on Why Medicare's Advance Care Planning Payment Is A Work In Progress
Description: Advance care planning 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 is called a living will.Beginning in January of 2016, Medicare made it possible for certain clinicians to bill for their work for patients to develop advance care plans.Despite the new billing option, uptake has been quite slow.In health care, we often use financial incentives to motivate behavior change. You might have...