December, 2019
There has been an overall increase in the number of plans offering some type of supplemental benefit applicable to their serious illness population since 2018. In 2019, the first year in which plans were able to expand their supplemental benefit offerings, a total of 507 standard MA plans offered one of the five supplemental benefits […]
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Hannah Crook, Andrew Olson, Mathew Alexander, Rachel Roiland, Mark Japinga, Nathan Boucher, Donald H. Taylor, Jr., Robert Saunders / Duke Margolis Center for Health Policy
December, 2019
Leaders from multiple plans also cited unique challenges associated with contracting with the kinds of local and community-based organizations that may be best suited to deliver non-medical supplemental benefits. Following the rule changes, plans are interested in offering services like meal delivery, transportation, and respite care—the types of services that are typically offered by locally […]
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Hannah Crook, Andrew Olson, Mathew Alexander, Rachel Roiland, Mark Japinga, Nathan Boucher, Donald H. Taylor, Jr., Robert Saunders / Duke Margolis Center for Health Policy
