advance care planning consultations

What are advance care planning consultations?

Advance care planning consultations are voluntary conversations between a medical provider and a patient — along with their family members or other caregivers, if they wish — to discuss what medical care the patient would like if they were to become unable to make real-time decisions about their care.¹ Starting in 2016, under new HHS regulations that were finalized in 2015, Medicare began paying doctors for end-of-life consultations.²