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CMMI Working on Payment Models That Include Palliative Care

Hospice News

31, 2021, according to a new CMMI white paper. “Aspects of MCCM are being used in the development of new CMS Innovation Center models related to palliative care,” the center indicated in the white paper. MCCM was designed to test the impact of concurrent hospice and curative care. To date, the U.S.

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Palliative Care Needs a Defined Scope to Expand Access, Reimbursement

Hospice News

Designed to test the impact of concurrent hospice and curative care, aspects of MCCM are being used in the development of new CMS Innovation Center models related to palliative care, CMMI indicated in a recent white paper. Establishing roles of an interdisciplinary team for home, community-based and facility-based settings.