Hospital Incentives For Hospice/Palliative Care-I Knew it!

Payor Value-Based Incentives Are Growing:

Payment Innovations

Highmark utilizes value-based contracts to support palliative care. Highmark’s Quality Blue incentive program supports hospital palliative care by providing incentive payments to hospitals based on these key metrics:

• The percentage of patients receiving a palliative care consult in the hospital (per 100 admissions).
• Patients who have documentation of resuscitation status on or before day one.
• Patients who have documentation of ICU efforts to identify the medical decision maker on or before day one of the ICU admission.
• An interdisciplinary family meeting conducted on or before day five of the ICU admission.