Medicare Advantage (MA) enrollment is expected to skyrocket in coming years, with more than one-third of Medicare beneficiaries currently signed up. But the pace of the great MA migration may be slower than originally anticipated — and vastly different across state lines. For home care providers, this means there could be fewer older adults with […]
Category: Medicare Advantage
Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM) is trying to solve the U.S. health care puzzle by piecing together everything from non-medical home care focused on social determinants of health to palliative care designed to improve members’ end-of-life comfort. Communication, culture and data will be the glue holding those pieces together, according to Dr. William Shrank, Humana’s new […]
A significant portion of home care providers view Medicare Advantage (MA) as a 2020 business opportunity. But MA plans likely need more time to figure out where home care fits into their coverage, meaning real upside may still be a ways off, according to Addus HomeCare Corporation (Nasdaq: ADUS) President and CEO Dirk Allison. Allison […]
With SCAN Health Plan and CareMore contracts, 24 Hour Home Care has been among the most active non-medical home care providers when it comes to 2019’s expanded Medicare Advantage (MA) benefits. Its early success working with MA players serves as a case study for industry peers looking to do the same in 2020 and beyond. […]
Seniors — specifically those who are Medicare Advantage (MA) beneficiaries — will be a driving force in Lyft’s (Nasdaq: LYFT) health care business in 2020 and beyond, according to vice president of health care Megan Callahan. “We expect to be working with the majority of the largest MA plans by 2020, as an increasing number […]
The Medicare Advantage (MA) expansions that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced this year and in early 2018 open the door to creative applications of non-medical home care services designed to proactively improve individuals’ health. The pair of new rules, with the broader of the two taking effect in 2020, have led […]
When the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced it would allow Medicare Advantage (MA) plans to cover certain non-medical home care services in 2019, interest was tepid, with only 3% of plans actually covering those benefits. So it is no surprise that a subsequent expansion for 2020 brought questions about just how much […]
Addressing social determinants of health is especially important for Medicare Advantage (MA) beneficiaries, as they are increasingly affected by a lack of services targeting those needs, which include access to and quality of housing, food and transportation, among other socio-economic factors. That’s according to a recent report from Avalere Health, a Washington, D.C.-based health care […]
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For decades, home care providers have been working to reduce hospitalizations, a challenging task that has gone largely unrewarded in the medical community. But finally, the industry is starting to recognize home care’s important — but difficult — role in the health continuum of care. “Home care agencies are going to be the big new […]
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