Former CMS Chief Verma: VBID Demo Meant to Fix Hospice Inconsistencies

When the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) unveiled the hospice component of the value-based insurance design (VBID) demonstration in 2019, one of its main goals was to bring length-of-stay consistency. That’s according to former CMS Administrator Seema Verma, who discussed the VBID demo – also known as the hospice Medicare Advantage (MA) […]