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

Hospice News

Compassus and VNS Health have formed a value-based collaboration aimed at improving access, awareness and quality of hospice and palliative care services. The two home-based care organizations are joining forces in a Medicare Advantage (MA) Value-Based Insurance Design (VBID) model partnership.

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CMMI Working on Payment Models That Include Palliative Care

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The Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) is developing new reimbursement pathways for palliative care. As part of that process, CMMI is applying elements of its Medicare Care Choices Model (MCCM) demonstration, which ended Dec. MCCM was designed to test the impact of concurrent hospice and curative care.

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Hospices Welcome VBID’s Demise, But Questions Remain

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In case you missed it, Hospice News has launched a new specialty publication for palliative care professionals. You can subscribe to Palliative Care News here: Subscribe today! The Medicare Advantage hospice carve-in will be carved back out by the end of this year. Citing “operational challenges,” the U.S.

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Why SCAN Health Plan Will Enter Hospice VBID in 2023

Hospice News

The main opportunity is to ensure continuity of care for our members from primary care to end-of-life care. The program’s potential to facilitate earlier adoption of palliative care was also a draw, the two executives said. . Sachin Jain , California-based SCAN Health Plan is a $4.3

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