The Parker Jewish Institute has been selected to participate in the Medical Care Choices Model, which will allow patients to choose to receive supportive hospice care while continuing to receive curative treatment.
Patients at the Center’s Comprehensive Community Hospice that are Medicare beneficiaries who are also qualified for the Medicare Hospice Benefit can choose to receive palliative treatment normally provided by hospices while continuing to receive treatment on their illnesses.
Patients at the hospice that are dual eligible beneficiaries who are eligible for the Medicare Hospice Benefit can also qualify for the model.
To qualify for the model a patient has to be suffering from a terminal illness, meet hospice eligibility requirements and must not have elected the Medicare or Medicaid Hospice Benefit within 30 days of participating in the model.
The model has recently been expanded to enable up to 150,000 eligible beneficiaries to have increased flexibility in choosing their care options.
Comprehensive Community Hospice and all other hospices participating in the model will receive a fee of $200 to $400 a month per beneficiary from the government.
Patients at Parker who are eligible for the model will be able to receive services starting on Jan. 1 of next year.
