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Providing Direct, Billable Physician Services to Hospice Patients

Information about billing for palliative care services: A Guide to Building a Hospital-Based Palliative Care Program is a desktop manual for health professionals considering or planning a hospital-based palliative care program. This "how-to" book provides step-by-step planning and implementation guidance complete with examples of tools and guidelines, as well as sample policies and procedures from successful programs.  http://www.capc.org/Documents/Guide_Order_Form

• Vermont Medical Society - Publications

• Vermont Medical Society - Legislative Update

• ACP-ASIM End-of-Life Care Center For Ethics & Professionalism

• The End of Life Physician Education Resource Center

• Vermont Ethics Network   

• American Pain Society       

• Partnership for Caring: Americas Voice for the Dying       

• NPR "The End of Life"     

• Project on Death in America       

• Zen Hospital Project       

• General Medical Journal (Formerly the British Medical Journal)      

• Innovations in End-Of-Life Care       

• End-of-Life Physician Education Resource Center       

• Education for Physicians on End-of-Life       

• AMA - EPEC participants handbook       

• Edmonton Palliative Care Program       

• National Hospice and Palliative Care Program       

• Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association       

• The Center to Advance Palliative Care       

• The Pediatric Pain Research Lab

• The SIMON Project

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