The Question of Palliative Care Sustainability
A Palliative Care News article addresses how some palliative care programs in the U.S. are struggling due to financial and operational challenges, leading to closures. The main issues tend to be insufficient reimbursement and staffing difficulties, resulting in not being financially sustainable. Per CAPC CEO Brynn Bowman, “We see places where the needs that palliative care intends to address are infiltrating into models that health care gets paid for; it just hasn’t so much translated into a standardized model of specialty palliative care for [the] patients who really need that service.”