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CMMI Analysis: Palliative Care Reduces Medicare Costs, Improve Patient Satisfaction

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When deployed at scale, palliative care can help achieve many of the health care systems current goals, including reduced costs, improved patient satisfaction and quality of life. The agency’s findings will likely inform the development of future payment models as the U.S.

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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. Despite ending the hospice component, CMS hopes to glean valuable information from the results to date. About 6.5%

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How Hospices Can Adapt to a Changing Competitive Landscape

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Some organizations know how to go out and present information in a way that’s meaningful to referral sources, and others don’t. Hospices have always had to compete not only with each other but with different entities in the larger health care system, rarely have they had so many players muscling in on their home turf.

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Payers to Hospices: Don’t Wait to Start Working with MA Plans

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About A total of 9,630 VBID beneficiaries received hospice care through the VBID demo in 2021, and 525 utilized the program’s supplemental benefits, according to a report from the RAND Corporation prepared for CMS. CMS requires MA plans to ensure they are working with providers of high-quality care.

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Key Trend for Hospices to Watch: Managed Care Becomes a Juggernaut

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However, thus far, reactions to the demo have been mixed. This will likely include data on length of stay and utilization of non-hospice services, as well as information used to gauge health equity. Among their concerns is the potential for reduced payments, which some plans contend would be offset by greater volume. “We

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Value-Based Care: What Hospices Can Learn from Home Health Companies

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To date, much of this has centered around diversified programs like palliative care, PACE and other services. Health care becomes a numbers game “Data” is a big word. It can refer to just about any kind of numerical information, and identifying which metrics to track can cause health care executives’ heads to spin.

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Blue Ridge Hospice CEO: Embrace Value-Based Transformation

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Last week, the hospice launched a new palliative care service and a PACE program. What led you to decide that this was the right time to move into palliative care and PACE? Can you share some more details on the palliative care pilot and how you’re approaching that service?

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