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- The number of Medicare Advantage members enrolled in plans with value-based payment designs more than tripled from 2019 to 2020, CMS said Thursday.
- Approximately 1.2 million beneficiaries joined plans in the Value-Based Insurance Design Model for coverage next year offered by 14 MA organizations across 30 states and Puerto Rico. That’s up from only 440,000 beneficiaries, 10 MA organizations and seven states in 2019.
- CMS also opened up applications Thursday for MA plans to test allowing MA enrollees to access the Medicare hospice benefit starting in 2021, in an attempt to coordinate care for MA beneficiaries in palliative and hospice care.