The Trump administration proposed a new initiative aimed at improving care coordination among Medicaid managed care plans for dual-eligible Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries.
The model announced Thursday by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will allow Medicaid managed care organizations to participate in the global and professional options in the agency’s Direct Contracting model, which offers voluntary risk-sharing agreements with providers.
“For too long we have struggled to deliver acceptable outcomes for this vulnerable population, but today’s model is a game-changer,” CMS Administrator Seema Verma said in a statement Thursday. “It represents a significant step toward addressing these longstanding issues and ensuring they receive the coordinated care they rightfully deserve.”
The professional direct contracting option offers primary care capitation, which is a risk-adjusted monthly payment for enhanced primary care services. The global option gives two payment options: primary care capitation or total care capitation that offers payments for all services made by a provider.
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CMS laid out some examples of how an MCO could use the voluntary direct contracting model, including:
- Entering into value-based purchasing agreements with nursing facilities that factor in facility hospitalization rates;
- Establish processes to connect beneficiaries with a primary care provider;
- Targeting care coordination resources towards beneficiaries that have a high risk of Medicare spending; and
- Have care coordinators and in-home aides that provide Medicaid long-term services to help enrollees with managing medical appointments.
Any managed-care organizations that participate in direct contracting need to get a letter of support from their state Medicaid agency to ensure that participation aligns with any state-managed plans.
They also have to have an active contract with the state.
An applicable MCO must also cover any long-term support and services such as being at risk for nursing home costs “and/or behavioral health services for people with serious mental illness/substance use disorder — unless the state managed care program excludes such individuals,” according to a fact sheet on the initiative.
Any MCO must also have a minimum of 3,000 aligned beneficiaries prior to the start of each performance year, the agency added.
CMS said that last year there were 12.2 million Americans that were dual-eligible beneficiaries and are an especially high need population.
“These dually eligible individuals must navigate two separate programs for their healthcare: Medicare for the coverage of most preventive, primary, and acute health care services and drugs, and Medicaid for coverage of long-term services and supports, certain behavioral health services, and for help with Medicare premiums and cost sharing,” CMS said in a release.
The Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation, which oversees payment models, will release a request for applications early next year for managed care organizations. Such organizations can start participating in the model in January 2022.
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