Hospice News October 27, 2023
Forthcoming Medicare payment models will likely focus on disease-specific programs that bear similarities to palliative care.
Emerging reimbursement demonstrations have placed a stronger emphasis on addressing a more diverse group of patients with high levels of care needs and complex health trajectories. Examples include the Value-Based Insurance Design (VBID) demonstration, the Accountable Care Organization Realizing Equity, Access and Community Health (ACO REACH) model and the Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) model.
Common threads among these value-based models are the goals of increasing access and improving care transitions and outcomes for seriously ill populations – including underserved groups, Purva Rawal, chief strategy officer at the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI), said at the the Coalition to Transform Advanced...