CHCF June 28, 2022
How palliative care clinicians and payers in California worked together to reduce unwanted variation and confusion in home-based palliative care
When health plans and palliative care clinicians come together about contracting, progress can be slow before things even get started. It can take months of discussion just to come to an agreement on what home-based palliative care (HBPC) is — including basic things such as what services are included. And what worked for one plan/provider agreement may not work for the next one, which means starting the negotiation cycle from scratch each time.
Six years ago, some payers and providers in California realized there...