Abstract

Advance Care Planning (ACP) supports adults to understand and communicate their values and wishes for future medical care in order to ensure goal-concordant care in serious illness when patients are too ill to make their own decisions [1,2]. In recognition of the misalignment between payment for ACP and its value, the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) authorized payment for ACP through new Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) codes (99497 and 99498) in 2016 [1].

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