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As In-Home Care Providers Embrace Medicare Advantage, They’ll Need to Better Manage Vulnerable Populations

By Robert Holly |

For years now, the U.S. health care system has steadily moved away from a fee-for-service environment toward value-based care. Medicare Advantage (MA) growth reflects this shift, particularly when it comes to the wide spectrum of home-based care. Currently, the average home health agency gets about 55% of its funding from fee-for-service Medicare, Medicare Payment Advisory […]

Podcast

Disrupt Podcast #33: Anne Tumlinson, CEO of ATI Advisory

By Valerie Arko |

The 33rd episode of our podcast, Disrupt, is now available! Home care agencies nationwide are eager to partner with Medicare Advantage plans, but doing so is easier said than done. However, mid-year flexibilities recently announced by CMS instantly opened up new opportunities for providers. In this episode of Disrupt, you’ll hear from Anne Tumlinson, CEO […]

Medicare Advantage

New CMS Medicare Advantage Rule Creates Incentives for Providers to Invest in Telehealth

By Joyce Famakinwa |

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced Friday it has finalized changes to Medicare Advantage (MA) and Medicare Part D. The changes — detailed in a final rule for 2021 — partly seek to strengthen access to telehealth services, an increasingly important component of the health care system amid the ongoing coronavirus emergency. […]

Medicare Advantage

‘Rare Flexibility’ for Medicare Advantage Plans Could Lead to Home Care Inflection Point

By Andrew Donlan |

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has granted further flexibility to Medicare Advantage (MA) plans to offer more benefits to beneficiaries during the COVID-19 crisis. For home care providers, that could mean more business opportunity. The Special Supplemental Benefits for the Chronically Ill (SSBCI) program was announced in 2019 for the 2020 plan […]