Fierce Healthcare June 22, 2018
MA plans might soon pay for health food, home repairs and transportation to church services.
SAN DIEGO—Insurers need to lead the way on supplemental benefits, including paying for transportation and healthy food, to help curb unnecessary serious illnesses and premature hospice care.
“We need you to make it financially feasible to take care of people at home. Because if you don’t, we’ll send them to the emergency department because we have no alternative.”
That is the ultimatum Diane Meier, M.D., founder and director of the Center to Advance Palliative Care, gave to health insurers during one session at the 2018 AHIP Institute & Expo in San Diego.
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