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New legislation is leading some hospices to consider what a potential community-based palliative care payment demo would mean for them — as well as what it would look like.
Four U.S. senators recently introduced a bipartisan bill that, if enacted, would steer the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) to develop a palliative care-specific payment model demonstration.
Having this kind of payment avenue could have significant impacts on community-based palliative care providers, according to Davis Baird, director of government affairs in hospice at the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC). To date, lagging reimbursement has been a barrier to home-based serious illness care, he said.