Value-Based Insurance Design
Open Door Forum Summary: Updates on iQIES Transition Update and Home Health & Hospice
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) held a Home Health, Hospice, & DME Open Door Forum (ODF) on January 8, 2020. A summary is provided below, beginning with home health and followed by hospice. HOME HEALTH iQIES Transition CMS indicated in the ODF that it is aware of several issues with the iQIES […]
Read MoreCMS Gives Early Plans for Testing Hospice in Medicare Advantage
–Opportunities for Stakeholder Input, Additional Details Expected Over Coming Months On April 9, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) held a one-hour webinar during which officials from the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovations (CMMI) provided a “first look” at plans for a test program under which Medicare Advantage (MA) plans participating in […]
Read MoreCMS Announces Plans to Test Coverage of Hospice under Medicare Advantage
–“VBID” Plans may offer coverage beginning CY2021 As part of a release announcing a “broad array of Medicare Advantage (MA) health plan innovations that will be tested in the Value-Based Insurance Design (VBID) model for CY2020,” the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) has indicated it plans, beginning in CY2021, to test including the […]
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