Hospice News September 28, 2020
The demonstration project to test inclusion of hospice in the value-based insurance design model — often called the Medicare Advantage hospice carve-in — will be a small program in its first year. The 53 participating Medicare Advantage plans cover 8% the market and a limited geographic footprint, according to data from the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).
Starting in 2021, payers and hospice providers will have the option to participate in the demonstration, which according to CMS is intended to increase access to hospice services and facilitate better coordination between patients’ hospice providers and their other clinicians.
Though the program is getting off to a relatively small start, CMS may still learn big lessons from the project.
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