Clinician Use of Advance Care Planning Billing Codes among Privately Insured Patients in 2016

Deepshikha C Ashana; Scott D Halpern; Craig A Umscheid; Meeta Prasad Kerlin; Michael O Harhay

doi:10.1089/jpm.2019.0285

Clinician Use of Advance Care Planning Billing Codes among Privately Insured Patients in 2016

J Palliat Med. 2019 Nov;22(11):1304-1305. doi: 10.1089/jpm.2019.0285.

Authors

Deepshikha C Ashana^{1

2

3

4}, Scott D Halpern^{1

2

3

4

5

6}, Craig A Umscheid^{7

8}, Meeta Prasad Kerlin^{1

2

3

4}, Michael O Harhay^{1

4

5}

Affiliations

¹ Palliative and Advanced Illness Research (PAIR) Center, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
² Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
³ Department of Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
⁴ Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
⁵ Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
⁶ Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
⁷ Section of General Internal Medicine, Biological Sciences Division, Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.
⁸ Center for Health care Delivery Science and Innovation, University of Chicago Medicine, Chicago, Illinois.

No abstract available

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Advance Care Planning / economics*
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S.
Fees and Charges / standards*
Humans
Insurance, Health*
Private Sector*
United States

Grants and funding

K99 HL141678/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/United States