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GUIDE Individuals have the option, and are not needed, to make offered respite through an adult day center or a 24-hour facility. Additional GUIDE Reprieve Providers requirements and information surrounding the payment for such services are specified in the Participation Agreement.

The infrastructure payment is meant for providers who desire to develop new dementia care programs and require resources to begin. GUIDE Individuals qualified as a safety net supplier based on the proportion of their patient population that is dually qualified for Medicare and Medicaid or get the Part D low-income aid.

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To qualify as a GUIDE safeguard company, a brand-new program candidate must have had a Medicare FFS beneficiary population consisted of a minimum of 36% recipients receiving the Part D low-income aid or 33.7% recipients who are dually qualified for Medicare and Medicaid. Accepting the facilities payment was optional. Neither the Dementia Care Management Payment (DCMP) nor GUIDE respite services will go through beneficiary cost-sharing.

When a lined up recipient is re-assessed and assigned to a brand-new tier, the GUIDE Participant will be eligible to bill the G-code for the recognized client payment rate associated with that tier the following month. GUIDE Individuals that withdraw or are terminated before the start of the 2nd efficiency year will be needed to pay back the entire value of their facilities payment to CMS.

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After the second efficiency year, GUIDE Participants that withdraw or are ended from the GUIDE Model are not needed to repay the infrastructure payment. The main model payment under the GUIDE Design is a per-beneficiary, per-month care management payment called the Dementia Care Management Payment (DCMP). The DCMP will change fee-for-service payment for some existing Medicare Physician Cost Schedule (PFS) services, including persistent care management and primary care management, transitional care management, advance care planning, and technology-based check-ins.

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The GUIDE Model is not a total-cost-of-care model, so GUIDE Participants will continue to costs under traditional Medicare fee-for-service for all services that are not included under the DCMP. CMS may add or eliminate codes over time to show changes in PFS billing codes.

The care group might include the recipient's primary care provider, and if not, the care group is required to determine and share information with the beneficiary's medical care supplier and experts and outline the care coordination services needed to manage the beneficiary's dementia and co-occurring conditions. CMS will offer GUIDE Individuals information connected to the performance measures that CMS uses to identify the GUIDE Participant's performance-based adjustment to the DCMP.GUIDE Participants in the established program track should be prepared to start furnishing services under the GUIDE Design on July 1, 2024, and costs for those services during the Model Efficiency Duration.

Yes, GUIDE beneficiary and supplier overlap with the Shared Savings Program is permitted. The GUIDE Design is developed to be suitable with other CMS models and programs that aim to improve care and lower spending. CMS believes targeted assistance for individuals with dementia and their caregivers will help improve population-based care outcomes overall.

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As an example, if an ACO is participating in both the GUIDE Design and the Shared Savings Program during Performance Year 2024 and then renews and begins a new agreement duration as of January 1, 2025, that ACO would have their Shared Cost savings Program benchmark based on 2022, 2023 and 2024, and would have DCMPs counted in Criteria Year 3. GUIDE Reprieve Service claims will not be counted toward ACO expenditures, shared savings, nor benchmarking beginning in 2024 for the period of the GUIDE Design.

GUIDE Participants might take part in multiple CMS Innovation Center designs or Medicare value-based care efforts to speed up development in care shipment, minimize the cost of care, and improve population health. Individuals and recipients are qualified to take part in the GUIDE Design and the ACO REACH Design. For the rest of CY 2024, ACO REACH will not consist of the Dementia Care Management Payment (DCMP) or Respite Service declares in the REACH ACOs' overall cost of care expenses or computation of shared savings/shared losses.

Overlapping participants should follow GUIDE billing guidance as stated listed below. ACO REACH claim reductions will not apply to DCMP. ACO REACH will include DCMP expenses for functions of alignment estimations. GUIDE Reprieve Service claims will not count toward ACO expenditures, shared savings, or benchmarking in 2025 and for the period of the GUIDE Model.

Since January 1, 2025, GUIDE Individuals likewise taking part in ACO REACH must cease billing the Medicare Physician Charge Schedule Solutions included under the DCMP (See Exhibition 5 in the GUIDE Payment Methodology Paper (PDF)). Participants taking part in both models need to follow the GUIDE billing requirements in the GUIDE Involvement Contract and GUIDE Payment Approach Paper.

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The GUIDE Participant must not bill Medicare independently for the services provided in the detailed evaluation. The detailed evaluation (and any re-assessments) is covered by the DCMP. If CMS determines the recipient is not qualified for the GUIDE Model, the GUIDE Individual can bill for an appropriate Medicare-covered professional service that represents the services rendered.