Hospice News August 16, 2023
Medicare Advantage plans are connecting the dots between quality scores and care delivery costs.
When choosing a hospice to work with, payers in the Medicare Advantage (MA) realm zero in on providers’ quality scores and its patient population growth potential, according to Frontpoint Healthcare CEO Brent Korte. Consequently, those are key data pieces for hospices when it comes to negotiating with payers.
Synthesizing and tracking quality data and patient reach internally is important when communicating the value of a hospice’s services to MA plans, Korte said during the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) Financial Management Conference.
“It’s trying to keep things as simple as possible in terms of quality stars and size or scope,” Korte said at...
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