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CMS Extends Hospice VBID Through 2030

Hospice News

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is extending the value-based insurance design demonstration for calendar years 2025 to 2030, including the hospice component. For VBID’s purposes, this is generally transitional services for patients who need comfort care but are not yet ready or eligible for hospice.

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New ACO Primary Flex Model Could Increase Hospice, Palliative Care Access

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Source: CMS Through the model, participating ACOs will receive a one-time advanced shared savings payment of $250,000, as well as a monthly Prospective Primary Care Payments (PPCPs), designed to provide flexibility to coordinate primary care delivery and enhance coordination with specialists, the spokesperson said.

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How ACO Flex Could Make Hospice ‘Top of Mind’ with Primary Care Providers

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“There’s lots of opportunities here in terms of bringing palliative care and hospice care more front and center and more top of mind, frankly, to those on the care team to present that to their patients,” Behan said. 1, 2025, with the application period starting May 20 and ending June 17.

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Voices: Tim Smokoff, General Manager, Home Health and Hospice, MatrixCare

Hospice News

Another key aspect is care coordination and collaboration. Whether it’s clarifying steps, asking questions or sending updates, the ability to communicate across the care team is a fundamental feature of the solutions we’re committed to providing. Editor’s note: This article has been edited for length and clarity.

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HSPN ELEVATE: Hospice Clinical Innovation Trends

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Raianne Melton: I just have to tell you, I have like two pages of stuff because there’s so much opportunity, and when we look at staffing in particular, in 2025, the majority, 75% of our employees are going to be millennials. What they care about is professional development.

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Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model: A Podcast with Malaz Boustani and Diane Ty

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The good news is that the financial case for comprehensive dementia care is changing thanks to a new Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) alternative payment model (APM) called Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model. And they can start July of 2025. They have one year to set it up. Purely architected.

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