Stakeholders in the hospice space are calling on the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to delay the inclusion of hospice in the agency’s value-based insurance design model, commonly called the Medicare Advantage hospice carve-in, on the grounds that providers will not be able to prepare due to the pressures brought on by the ongoing pandemic. The health care and senior advocacy groups LeadingAge, the Visiting Nurse Associations of America (VNAA), ElevatingHOME (EH) and the Better Medicare Alliance (BMA) have written to CMS to request that the agency delay implementation to Jan. 1, 2022. The demonstration program is currently set to being on Jan. 1, 2021.
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Source: https://hospicenews.com/2020/04/15/calls-grow-louder-to-delay-hospice-medicare-advantage-carve-in