Posted April 27, 2023
The Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) is considering a broad spectrum of payment models that could integrate palliative care.
Palliative care providers offer a diverse range of services designed to meet their patients’ complex needs, and forthcoming payment model demonstrations will reflect this heterogeneity, fashioned with inclusive, yet measurable tools, Ellen Lukens, deputy director of CMMI said at the Hospice News Palliative Care Conference in Washington D.C.
“In terms of models, in general, we’re really thinking about how we leverage accountable care and primary care models and other models to provide flexibility to do different things in things like palliative care,” Lukens told Hospice News at the conference. “It’s really important to give providers and other entities that are testing these models tools to be successful. Thinking about where we go from here, that’s a really important context as we think about the future of palliative care.”
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