Sec. 228. Medicare Hospice payment model demonstration projects
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Not later than July 1, 2017, the Secretary, acting through the Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and the Director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, shall conduct demonstration projects to examine ways to improve how the Medicare hospice care benefit predicts disease trajectory. Projects shall include the following models: Models that better and more appropriately care for, and transition as needed, patients in their last years of life who need palliative care, but do not qualify for hospice care under the Medicare hospice eligibility criteria.
Models that better and more appropriately care for long-term patients who are not recertified in hospice but still need palliative care. Any other models determined appropriate by the Secretary. The Secretary may waive compliance of such requirements of titles XI and XVIII of the Social Security Act as the Secretary determines necessary to conduct the demonstration projects under this section. The Secretary shall submit to Congress periodic reports on the demonstration projects conducted under this section.