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GUIDE Individuals have the option, and are not required, to make offered break through an adult day center or a 24-hour center. Extra GUIDE Break Services requirements and details surrounding the payment for such services are specified in the Participation Agreement.

The infrastructure payment is meant for providers who wish to develop brand-new dementia care programs and need resources to get going. GUIDE Individuals qualified as a safety net supplier based upon the proportion of their client population that is dually qualified for Medicare and Medicaid or receive the Part D low-income subsidy.

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To certify as a GUIDE safeguard service provider, a brand-new program applicant need to have had a Medicare FFS recipient population consisted of a minimum of 36% beneficiaries receiving the Part D low-income subsidy or 33.7% recipients who are dually eligible for Medicare and Medicaid. Accepting the infrastructure payment was optional. Neither the Dementia Care Management Payment (DCMP) nor GUIDE reprieve services will be subject to recipient cost-sharing.

When a lined up recipient is re-assessed and designated to a brand-new tier, the GUIDE Individual will be qualified to bill the G-code for the established client payment rate associated with that tier the following month. GUIDE Individuals that withdraw or are terminated before the start of the second performance year will be needed to repay the entire worth of their infrastructure payment to CMS.

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After the 2nd efficiency year, GUIDE Individuals that withdraw or are ended from the GUIDE Model are not required to pay back the infrastructure payment. The main design payment under the GUIDE Design is a per-beneficiary, per-month care management payment called the Dementia Care Management Payment (DCMP). The DCMP will replace fee-for-service payment for some existing Medicare Physician Charge Set Up (PFS) services, including chronic care management and primary care management, transitional care management, advance care planning, and technology-based check-ins.

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The GUIDE Design is not a total-cost-of-care model, so GUIDE Individuals will continue to expense under traditional Medicare fee-for-service for all services that are not included under the DCMP. Extra information, consisting of a complete list of duplicative codes, is offered in the Request for Applications (Table 8, pg. 35). CMS might add or get rid of codes in time to show modifications in PFS billing codes.

The care group might include the beneficiary's primary care supplier, and if not, the care team is required to identify and share information with the beneficiary's medical care provider and professionals and detail the care coordination services required to handle the beneficiary's dementia and co-occurring conditions. CMS will offer GUIDE Individuals data related to the efficiency measures that CMS uses to determine the GUIDE Individual's performance-based change to the DCMP.GUIDE Participants in the established program track should be prepared to begin providing services under the GUIDE Design on July 1, 2024, and costs for those services throughout the Design Efficiency Period.

Yes, GUIDE recipient and company overlap with the Shared Savings Program is permitted. The GUIDE Design is designed to be suitable with other CMS models and programs that aim to enhance care and lower spending. CMS believes targeted assistance for individuals with dementia and their caretakers will help improve population-based care results overall.

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The Dementia Care Management Payment (DCMP), the per beneficiary per month GUIDE payment, will be consisted of in 2024 Shared Cost savings Program expenses. When 2024 becomes a benchmark year, DCMPs will be consisted of in Shared Savings Program standard calculations. As an example, if an ACO is taking part in both the GUIDE Model and the Shared Cost Savings Program during Efficiency Year 2024 and then renews and starts a new agreement period as of January 1, 2025, that ACO would have their Shared Cost savings Program criteria based on 2022, 2023 and 2024, and would have DCMPs counted in Standard Year 3. GUIDE Respite Service claims will not be counted towards ACO expenses, shared cost savings, nor benchmarking beginning in 2024 for the period of the GUIDE Model.

GUIDE Individuals might take part in multiple CMS Development Center models or Medicare value-based care efforts to accelerate innovation in care shipment, lower the expense of care, and enhance population health. Participants and recipients are qualified to take part in the GUIDE Model and the ACO REACH Model. 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' total cost of care expenditures or calculation of shared savings/shared losses.

Overlapping participants should follow GUIDE billing guidance as set forth below. GUIDE Respite Service claims will not count toward ACO expenditures, shared savings, or benchmarking in 2025 and for the period of the GUIDE Model.

As of January 1, 2025, GUIDE Participants likewise participating in ACO REACH ought to stop billing the Medicare Doctor Fee Arrange Providers consisted of under the DCMP (See Exhibition 5 in the GUIDE Payment Method Paper (PDF)). Individuals participating in both designs need to follow the GUIDE billing requirements in the GUIDE Participation Arrangement and GUIDE Payment Approach Paper.

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The GUIDE Individual should not bill Medicare independently for the services supplied in the extensive evaluation. The extensive evaluation (and any re-assessments) is covered by the DCMP. If CMS identifies the recipient is not eligible for the GUIDE Design, the GUIDE Participant can bill for a suitable Medicare-covered professional service that corresponds to the services rendered.