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Palliative Care, Health Equity Growing in Medicare Advantage

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Reimbursement for community-based palliative care is gaining ground in the Medicare Advantage realm. Palliative care is among the wide range of supplemental benefits that exist within the Medicare Advantage payment landscape. This is a rise from 180 MA plans in 2023 offering palliative services and 64 MA plans in 2020.

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The Role of Medicare Advantage in Growing Palliative Care Services

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For the time being, Medicare Advantage may be providers’ best bet for palliative care reimbursement. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) also allows Medicare Advantage plans to cover palliative care as a supplemental benefit. That’s going to be a little more sustainable than billing fee for service.”

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Medicare Advantage Beneficiaries Less Likely to Receive Aggressive End-of-Life Care

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Medicare Advantage (MA) beneficiaries are less likely to receive intensive treatments or burdensome transfers during the last six months of life compared to those in traditional Medicare, a new study has found. The post Medicare Advantage Beneficiaries Less Likely to Receive Aggressive End-of-Life Care appeared first on Hospice News.

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Medicare Advantage Crackdown Could Dampen Palliative Care Growth

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Federal regulators are cracking down on the private insurers that administer Medicare Advantage (MA) plans. I think Medicare Advantage plans are very interested in palliative care,” Tyler Overstreet Cromer, principal of ATI Advisory’s Medicare Innovation Team, previously told Hospice News. trillion and reported total profits of $69.3

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Quality Data, Cost Control: Hospices’ ‘True North’ in Medicare Advantage

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Medicare Advantage plans are connecting the dots between quality scores and care delivery costs. When choosing a hospice to work with, payers in the Medicare Advantage (MA) realm zero in on providers’ quality scores and its patient population growth potential, according to Frontpoint Healthcare CEO Brent Korte.

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Compassus, VNS Health Team Up to Manage End-of-Life Care for Medicare Advantage Payers

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The two home-based care organizations are joining forces in a Medicare Advantage (MA) Value-Based Insurance Design (VBID) model partnership. I think Medicare Advantage plans have the same charge and want the same things. At the end of the day, if we do it well together, we save overall total costs of care collectively.”

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CMS to Sunset Hospice VBID in 2024

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Often called the “hospice carve-in,” the program was designed to test coverage of hospice care through Medicare Advantage, in addition to some coverage of palliative care and transitional care. The Medicare Advantage hospice carve-in has been a source of controversy since CMS announced its plans for the program in 2019.

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