Community-Based Palliative Care: The Future of At-Home Health

Help Choose Home

In today’s episode of Help Choose Home, we’re joined by Edo Banach , JD, President and CEO of the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization . He has worked as the Senior Advisor and Deputy Director of the Medicare-Medicaid Coordination Office at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and Associate General Counsel at the Visiting Nurse Service of New York.

Edo has also served as the Medicare Rights Center’s General Counsel, and has practiced health law at the firms of Latham & Watkins and Gallagher, Evelius and Jones, and clerked for U.S. Judge John T. Nixon of the Federal District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee.

In this episode we discuss:

• The history of the hospice benefit and why there’s still plenty of room for hospice reform
• The importance of standardized, high-quality community-based palliative care.
• Strategies for raising consumer awareness about legislative issues related to hospice and palliative care, and tips for talking to loved ones about them.

Be sure to check out Help Choose Home Season 4, Episode 2 show notes and our full library of podcasts dedicated to helping families learn more about professional home care options.