Medicare Advantage Crackdown Could Dampen Palliative Care Growth
Hospice News
MAY 3, 2023
Federal regulators are cracking down on the private insurers that administer Medicare Advantage (MA) plans. In turn, that could dampen the growth of palliative care supplemental benefits in MA moving forward. Despite palliative care’s ability to lower health care spending and improve patient outcomes, it remains an underutilized service. That’s partly because providers are forced to offer palliative care through a patchwork of reimbursement mechanisms, one of which is the MA program.
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