Recommendations to Improve Payment Policies for Comprehensive Dementia Care
Access to comprehensive dementia care is limited. Recent changes in billing for professional services, including new physician fee schedule codes, encourage clinicians to provide new services; however, current reimbursement does not cover costs for all needed elements of dementia care. The Payment M...
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Published in | Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (JAGS) Vol. 68; no. 11; pp. 2478 - 2485 |
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Main Authors | , , , , , , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
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Hoboken, USA
John Wiley & Sons, Inc
01.11.2020
Wiley Subscription Services, Inc |
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Summary: | Access to comprehensive dementia care is limited. Recent changes in billing for professional services, including new physician fee schedule codes, encourage clinicians to provide new services; however, current reimbursement does not cover costs for all needed elements of dementia care. The Payment Model for Comprehensive Dementia Care Conference convened more than 50 national experts from diverse perspectives to review promising strategies for payment reform including ways to accelerate their adoption. Recommendations for reform included payments for services to family caregivers; new research to determine success metrics; education for consumers, providers, and policymakers; and advancing a population health model approach to tier coverage based on risk and need within a health system.
See related Editorial by Callahan et al. in this issue. |
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Bibliography: | Callahan et al in this issue. See related editorial by Kristin Lees Haggerty and Gary Epstein‐Lubow, co‐first authors, contributed equally to this work. ObjectType-Article-1 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-2 content type line 23 |
ISSN: | 0002-8614 1532-5415 |
DOI: | 10.1111/jgs.16807 |