Hospice News
APRIL 9, 2024
Reimbursement for community-based palliative care is gaining ground in the Medicare Advantage realm. Palliative care is among the wide range of supplemental benefits that exist within the Medicare Advantage payment landscape. This is a rise from 180 MA plans in 2023 offering palliative services and 64 MA plans in 2020.
Hospice News
OCTOBER 9, 2023
Calls have grown louder for an overhauled design of the Medicare Hospice Benefit, but the path towards change is riddled with contrasting views over regulation, policy and payment structures. Part of the problem is that the [Medicare] Hospice Benefit is 40 plus years old. of terminal diagnoses in 2020, while cancer accounted for 7.2%.
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Hospice News
JUNE 28, 2023
Despite this potential, existing programs hit barriers created by misconceptions about palliative care among referring physicians, as well as health equity concerns, among others, according to an analysts of four payment model demonstrations carried out by the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation.
Hospice News
AUGUST 26, 2022
Medicare reimbursement is the lifeblood of hospice providers, and a clear understanding of policies like budget neutrality can help elucidate the payment systems that keep their businesses running. The clearest example of how this works was the 2020 rebasing of payments for the four levels of hospice care.
Hospice News
JULY 14, 2022
Margin pressures from the proposed cuts to Medicare home health rates could impact palliative care and hospice. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in June released its proposed home health reimbursement rule for 2023, which included a 4.2% reduction in aggregate payments totaling an estimated $810 million.
Hospice News
JUNE 3, 2022
The Medicare Part A trust fund is still on track to run short of money before the decade is out, but not as quickly as previously anticipated. By 2028, Medicare would have sufficient dollars to cover 90% of Medicare expenses. Annual raises in reimbursement and Medicare residual costs spurred the higher rate of increase.
Hospice News
JULY 13, 2022
bump in Medicare payments, which they say is insufficient in light of COVID-19 and staffing headwinds. These time lags are typical for the agency’s reimbursement decisions, but the conditions that hospices have endured since early 2020 have been anything but normal. Congress should urge [the U.S.
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