Tip: Remember you have to bill both the managed care plan and Medicare for VBID carve-in patients.
If you don’t want to miss out on hospice reimbursement that’s rightfully yours, you’ll check patients’ Medicare Advantage Organizations against this list of MAOs covering hospice starting in January:
Cambia Health Solutions Inc.
Catholic Health Care System
CVS Health Corp.
Elevance Health Inc.
Guidewell Mutual Holding Corp.
Hawaii Medical Service Association
Highmark Health
Humana Inc.
Kaiser Foundation Health Plan Inc.
Louisiana Health Service & Indemnity Company
Marquis Companies I Inc.
Presbyterian Healthcare Services
SCAN Group
UnitedHealth Group Inc.
Visiting Nurse Service of New York
Tip: For a specific list of MAOs offering the hospice benefit, their contacts, and the counties in which they will operate, click on the “VBID CY2023 Hospice Benefit Contact Information (XLS)” link under the “Hospice Benefit Component” section at https://innovation.cms.gov/innovation-models/vbid.