CMS released the Value-Based Insurance Design Model Hospice Benefit Component Calendar Year 2023 Monitoring Guidelines which cover how CMS plans to monitor and evaluate next year’s Hospice Benefit Component of the Value Based Insurance Design demonstration. New to this year’s guidelines is information on monitoring Health Equity Plans (HEP) which were a requirement of this year’s Request for Application. For 2023 participating plans must have a strategy to advance health equity with respect to palliative care, transitional concurrent care, and hospice care. In order to monitor and support implementation of the HEPs that were submitted as part of the CY 2023 application, CMS will require all participating MAOs to submit biannual progress reports. These progress reports will provide additional information on the implementation status of the efforts described in the HEPs. CMS is also requiring biannual reports on hospice provider network adequacy.
