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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. 31, 2021, according to a new CMMI white paper. To date, the U.S.

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Palliative Care Needs a Defined Scope to Expand Access, Reimbursement

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Currently Medicare reimbursement for palliative care includes physician and licensed independent practitioner services through fee-for-service payment programs that do not sufficiently cover the full range of interdisciplinary care. What are the clinical components that we’re looking for in a patient? What are the guidelines?