Hospice News May 3, 2023
Federal regulators are cracking down on the private insurers that administer Medicare Advantage (MA) plans. In turn, that could dampen the growth of palliative care supplemental benefits in MA moving forward.
Despite palliative care’s ability to lower health care spending and improve patient outcomes, it remains an underutilized service. That’s partly because providers are forced to offer palliative care through a patchwork of reimbursement mechanisms, one of which is the MA program.
In 2022, 147 plans offered home-based palliative care across 17 states, a 7% increase in the number of plans compared to the prior year. That growth has continued into 2023, with at least 157 plans offering home-based palliative care, according to data from Washington, D.C.-based research and consulting...
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