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Data are key to understanding how value-based care has helped highlight quality benefits of hospice.
The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is sunsetting the hospice component of the value-based insurance design (VBID) as of Dec. 31. Commonly called the hospice carve-in, the program in 2021 began testing the coverage of hospice through Medicare Advantage, as well as palliative care and transitional care.
Though the hospice carve-in is coming to an end, it could have lasting impacts on how value-based providers across the continuum view end-of-life care, according to Mindy Stewart-Coffee, national vice president of palliative care at Landmark Health, part of the UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UHN) subsidiary Optum Home & Community Care.