Here’s what you need to know:
1. The PACE program was last overhauled in 2006. It provides coordinated, community-based services to Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries who qualify for skilled nursing care.
2. The proposal could allow coordinating participants’ care teams to have a “more flexible approach” than the current structure. Non-physician caregivers like nurse practitioners would be allowed to provide some services primary care physicians would normally cover.
3. Additionally the updates would block people with convictions for physical, sexual or substance abuse from being employed in a position that would threaten PACE beneficiaries.
4. The update would also make regulations more consistent, transparent and comprehensible.
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