Medicare Advantage and the Hospice Carve-Out

What you’ll learn

• How Medicare Advantage works and how it differs from traditional fee-for-service Medicare – including why the payment structure matters for how your referral partners behave
• What the hospice carve-out is, its regulatory foundation, and what it means operationally for hospice organizations and the patients they serve
• How fast MA enrollment is growing – and why it is already reshaping hospice market dynamics
• The legislative pressure on the carve-out, what happened with the VBID experiment, and where things stand as of mid-2026
• Six specific things a hospice liaison needs to know and do differently in a high-MA market