Home Health & Hospice Week

Industry Notes:

April Start Date Scuttled For SIP Model

Medicare’s Seriously Ill Population program under the Primary Care First Model is on ice. SIP “is currently under review, and will not begin on the previously announced April 1, 2021 start date,” the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services says on its PCFM webpage. Reminder: Under the program, “CMS will attribute Seriously Ill Population (SIP) patients lacking a primary care [...]
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