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

Hospice News

Originally slated to end in 2024, CMS recently extended the hospice component of the value-based insurance design model (VBID) to 2023. When it comes to hospice VBID, numbers from the program’s first year offer few clues for the 2023-2024 landscape. The program launched in 2021, coinciding with the height of the pandemic.

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Hospices Get Creative to Succeed in VBID

Hospice News

Though its ultimate outcome remains uncertain, many stakeholders believe that, in the long term, hospices can expect more interaction with Medicare Advantage plans. Examples include improving hospice access and increasing lengths of stay, which ultimately contributes to a lower cost of care — a high priority among payers.

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Episode 24: How Do I Get Off this Emotional Roller-coaster?

Living With Hospice

I am a long term hospice volunteer, and I've been involved with hospice going back to my son 13 years ago, and I've been a client of several hospice organizations here in Michigan through my family, and I've seen hospice from the outside as a client as well as from the inside as a long term volunteer.

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