How agilon health trains primary care physicians to provide palliative care
How agilon health trains primary care physicians to provide palliative care
Hospice News; by Jim Parker; 1/8/25
The senior care company agilon health (NYSE: AGL) has scaled a palliative care education model for its physician partners throughout most of the markets they serve. ... A 2023 study published in the Journal of Pain and Symptom Management found that the primary care-led, integrated approach to palliative care that agilon employs were two-thirds less likely to die in a hospital and on average spent five more days at home near the end of life. Hospice News sat down with agilon’s CMO, Dr. Karthik Rao, to talk about the ways the company prepares physicians to provide palliative care to their most seriously ill patients. [Key goals include:]
- ... understand that problem that we’re trying to solve for our patients through palliative care ...
- ... identifying the right patients that are eligible for palliative care ...
- ... acknowledging that having even palliative enrollment conversations is challenging ... [training and] supporting providers to have effective and meaningful palliative enrollment and engagement conversations