Health Affairs Forefront: Payment for Comprehensive Dementia Care - Five Key Recommendations
Health Affairs Forefront has published an article on "Payment for Comprehensive Dementia Care: Five Key Recommendations," calling on the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to develop and launch a comprehensive dementia care payment model.
The article notes that dementia is highly prevalent, costly and requires more complex management than other diseases, yet CMS does not have a comprehensive, coordinated way to pay for the unique challenges associated with dementia care.
The authors outline the evidence in support of comprehensive dementia care models, such as the Alzheimer's and Dementia Care Program developed at UCLA, and recommend that the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation test a new alternative payment model that contains five key design components. These components are laid out in the article and discussed in detail.
The article results from a roundtable convening on October 24, 2022 in Washington, DC, that addressed practical questions important to payers interested in funding comprehensive dementia care models, hosted by JAHF in partnership with the Education Development Center (EDC).
Authors include Nora Super, Long-Term Quality Alliance; Gary Epstein-Lubow, EDC and The Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University; David Reuben, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA; and Rani Snyder, Jane Carmody, and Abby Maglich, JAHF.
JAHF created a social media action pack to share the article urge the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to create new payment models that cover comprehensive dementia care.
Subsequently, CMS announced the release of the Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) payment model. Learn more in this post featuring a follow-up Health Affairs Forefront article.
Read to the article.
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Read a related August Health Affairs Forefront article, Paying For Dementia Care That Improves Patient Outcomes, Supports Caregivers, And Saves Money.
Go to the Alzheimer’s and Dementia Care Program, developed at UCLA.
Learn more about JAHF's co-support of UCLA.
