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CMMI Working on Payment Models That Include Palliative Care

Hospice News

31, 2021, according to a new CMMI white paper. MCCM was designed to test the impact of concurrent hospice and curative care. “Aspects of MCCM are being used in the development of new CMS Innovation Center models related to palliative care,” the center indicated in the white paper. To date, the U.S.

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Palliative Care Needs a Defined Scope to Expand Access, Reimbursement

Hospice News

One of the primary reasons that there is limited access is the fact that we don’t have a clear definition of who qualifies for palliative care,” Booker told Hospice News during the Palliative Executive Webinar Series. What are the clinical components that we’re looking for in a patient? What are the guidelines? It’s fairly loose.”.