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Volume 339:203 July 16, 1998 Number 3
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Health Insurance and Palliative Care

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To the Editor: The frustration of Dr. Knoll (March 12 issue)1 with the rejection by health insurance companies of reimbursement for acute hospitalization for palliative care is avoidable. Had his patients been placed in a hospice, their inpatient treatment would have been fully covered through hospice benefits. Hospice benefits cover home care as well as acute care for palliative treatment of symptoms — meeting a "prudent layperson" standard as well as offering a seamless continuum of care for the dying.


Gregory J. Miller, M.D.
Intermountain Health Care Hospice
Ogden, UT 84403

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  1. Knoll AM. Health insurance and palliative care. N Engl J Med 1998;338:767-767. [Free Full Text]
 
Dr. Knoll replies:

To the Editor: I completely agree . . . [Full Text of this Article]



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