Hospice News December 9, 2022
The hospice component of the value-based insurance design (VBID) model will begin its third year on Jan. 1, 2023, meaning that some of the program’s rules will change.
Often called the MA hospice carve-in, the voluntary demonstration is designed to assess payer and provider performance related to hospice within Medicare Advantage (MA). The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has indicated that hospices should ensure that their billing staff is familiar with the 2023 modifications.
For the final two years of the program, payers will have more leeway when it comes to payment rates and patient access to hospice providers outside of their health plan’s network, according to Bill Dombi, president of the National Association for Home Care...
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