The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) will end the Hospice Benefit Component of the Value-based Insurance Design (VBID) Model at the end of the year.
The hospice carve-in was designed to test coverage of hospice, palliative and transitional care coverage through the Medicare Advantage program. According to Hospice News,...
Hospice business is shifting in Arizona as Banner Health (Banner) has closed hospice services in Arizona and will now refer to nonprofit Hospice of the Valley. Also, Pennant will take over hospice services for Southwestern Palliative Care and Hospice (Southwestern).
Banner, Arizona's largest health system, will shift its 100 hospice...
On Friday, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services issued a proposed rule that would give hospice providers a 2.8% reimbursement increase and would institute a number of penalties for hospices that fail to meet reporting requirements. The rule signals a long-expected federal crackdown on hospice fraud, waste and...
This week, industry stakeholders discussed value-based care as it pertains to their business and said in no uncertain terms that the path forward for healthcare is through value-based care, with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' (CMS) alternative payment models (APMs) leading the way. Skilled nursing facilities and...White Papers, E books, Reports and more
Data from the National Health and Aging Trends Study (NHATS) last weeks supports the idea that satisfaction with end-of-life care is influenced by the location in which someone dies. Of a sample of 1,500 deceased Medicare Beneficiaries, those with cognitive impairments were most likely to die at home.
From the study’s lead author,...National News
Last week, Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) met to present its draft recommendations for 2022 payment rules. Their implication: hospitals, physicians, hospices, outpatient dialysis centers, and ambulatory surgery centers will be just fine financially less than two years after the onset of the pandemic.
According to...CMS Rules
Value-based care continues to be a focus in the news this week, as the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Seema Verma penned an op-ed in Modern Healthcare about the Centers’ support for models driven by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation. These programs have on the whole lost more money than they’ve...Arizona News
Hospice advocates are calling for a delay to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' (CMS) Medicare Advantage (MA) carve-in demonstration set to begin in Jan. 2021.
Earlier this year, the agency announced it would start testing hospice care coverage through MA plans in 2021 with the intention of increasing care...National News
Another example of payers and providers joining forces.
Health insurer Humana is teamed with private equity firms Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe and TPG according to a source for Reuters.
Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe and TPG would take over Kindred’s facility-focused business, which includes long-term acute care...