Hospice News October 16, 2020
The Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) will offer a second opportunity for Medicare Advantage plans to participate in the demonstration of hospice coverage through Medicare Advantage. The implementation date for this second cohort would occur in 2022.
CMMI Director Brad Smith discussed this move at the Better Medicare Alliance Medicare Advantage Summit.
“In addition to a lot of the flexibilities that [CMMI] has had historically, we are also implementing a new hospice benefit where hospice will be part of Medicare Advantage,” Smith said at the conference. “We’ve actually heard a lot of great feedback from this from our Medicare Advantage plans, and we’re even thinking based on the feedback we receive about potentially having another opportunity for folks...
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