Enact Rules and Payment Mechanisms to Encourage Appropriate Hospice and Palliative Care Usage

Year: 2016

Resolution Number: 32

Action Taken: Reaffirmed

Status:

Author(s): P. Dileep Kumar, MD

Sponsor: P. Dileep Kumar, MD

On behalf of: St. Clair County Delegation

Committee: Reaffirmation Calendar

Resolved Section(s):
RESOLVED: That the Michigan Delegation to the American Medical Association (AMA) ask our AMA to work with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to enact rules and payment mechanisms to encourage appropriate hospice and palliative care utilization for eligible patients.

Fiscal Note: NULL

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Stacey Hettiger , Director
Health Care Delivery
517-336-5732
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