Home Health & Hospice Week
Industry Notes:
Ball Starts Rolling For Second Year Of VBID Hospice Carve-In
Published on Fri Dec 18, 2020
Hospices are bracing for the first year hospice services will be included in Medicare Advantage plans starting Jan. 1, but planning for the second year is already underway. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has released the Calendar Year 2022 Request for Applications (RFA) for the Value-Based Insurance Design (VBID) Model, and the applications are due April 16. CMS will hold a 2022 VBID Model and Hospice Benefit Component Overview Webinar Jan. 14 and office hours on Feb. 11. More information is at https://innovation.cms.gov/innovation-models/vbid.
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