Home Health & Hospice Week

Industry Note:

Hospice Physicians Could Benefit From New Primary Care Model

Medicare’s newly proposed “Primary Care First” payment model should benefit your patients and the physicians who care for them — including hospice physicians. “The Primary Cares Initiative offers upfront payment incentives to serve Medicare populations with complex medical and social needs,” notes the American Academy of Home Care Medicine, which says it “strongly supports” the strategy. Many core principles of [...]
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