MedPage Today Article Covers Amy Berman's Senate Testimony on End-of-Life Care
Amy Berman, Senior Program Officer at JAHF, testified at yesterday's hearing of the Senate Special Committee on Aging along with Dr. Kate Lally and Dr. Atul Gawande. Their testimonies centered on how patient preferences are often ignored in end-of-life care and the difficulties patients have receiving the kind of care they want.
Amy Berman, Senior Program Officer at JAHF, testified at yesterday's hearing of the Senate Special Committee on Aging along with Dr. Kate Lally and Dr. Atul Gawande. Their testimonies centered on how patient preferences are often ignored in end-of-life care and the difficulties patients have receiving the kind of care they want. After the hearing, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) said he plans to introduce a new bill that would revise Medicare's hospice eligibility requirements so that people who choose hospice care can still receive curative care. This bill would also give the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid services a chance to test pilot programs in palliative and hospice care.
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