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Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has unveiled the Making Care Primary (MC) model, which will launch in July 2024 in eight states — Colorado, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, and Washington. This could include partnerships with hospice and palliative care clinicians.
The demonstration marks the first major step for hospices into the value-based care arena. While some hospice leaders question the value of the program, others have greeted the demo with more enthusiasm. But regardless of how they view VBID, most hospice providers realize that this is something that can’t be ignored.
About A total of 9,630 VBID beneficiaries received hospicecare through the VBID demo in 2021, and 525 utilized the program’s supplemental benefits, according to a report from the RAND Corporation prepared for CMS. CMS will also place greater emphasis on health equity, carecoordination and social determinents of health.
“As SCAN transitions to the new realities of health care delivery with its enhanced focus on vulnerable seniors, this is the ideal time to develop operations integrating high-quality hospicecare with upstream palliative care to support our members during their entire care journey.”.
The collaboration with VNS Health is intended to boost access to end-of-life care for serious and terminally ill patients by improving carecoordination and transitions, Holland indicated. Compassus’ role will largely involve providing community-based palliative and hospice support for patients in MA VBID health plans, he said.
million primary care visits in 2016. A watchword for many value-based payment models is carecoordination. By operating a home-based primary care program, hospices can gain an edge when it comes to coordinating services. This could include partnerships with hospice and palliative care clinicians.
You can subscribe to Palliative Care News here: Subscribe today! The Medicare Advantage hospice carve-in will be carved back out by the end of this year. Many operators were glad to see it go, but the questions the demo sought to answer still linger. Citing “operational challenges,” the U.S.
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