Home Health Care News January 6, 2022
CareLinx, now a part of Sharecare, has had an eye on Medicare Advantage (MA) opportunities ever since in-home care services became a benefit under MA plans. The company is now seeing the fruits of its labor.
On Tuesday, Atlanta, Georgia-based Sharecare (Nasdaq: SHCR) announced that more than 400 MA plans are utilizing CareLinx to scale in-home care supplemental benefit programs in 2022.
“When the new supplemental benefits came out in 2019, we were very vocal that this is a strategy of the company,” Sherwin Sheik, head of home health at Sharecare, told Home Health Care News. “We started working, on a small scale, with health plans across the country, including some of the largest health plans.”
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