Home Health Care News March 7, 2024
Grand opening, grand closing.
Hospice providers began to work with Medicare Advantage (MA) via the Value-Based Insurance Design (VBID) demonstration in 2021. At the end of 2024, the “hospice carve-in” model will cease.
This will have an impact on home health providers who offer hospice services, obviously. But the failure of hospice’s fit within VBID points to larger problems that exist somewhere between home-based care providers and MA plans.
Since the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced the end of hospice carve-in on Monday, hospice providers – many of which also provide home health care – have mostly applauded the move.
I reached out to multiple leaders throughout the week to get their takes, and one told me...
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