Early palliative care billing up from 2010 to 2019 for advanced cancer

Published Date: 18 Mar 2025

For patients with distant-stage cancers, there was an increase in early palliative care (PC) billing from 2010 to 2019, but the level remained low, according to a study published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.

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