Healthcare DIVE December 11, 2019
Dive Brief:
- A minority of Medicare Advantage plans have added benefits targeted at enrollees with serious chronic illnesses. In 2019, 507 MA plans, or 11% of the total number of plans, offered supplemental benefits. Fewer plans — 377, or 7% — will offer supplemental benefits in 2020, but the reduction is based largely on the actions of one national payer, according to a new study from the Duke Margolis Center for Health Policy.
- The benefits for seriously ill enrollees include: adult daycare (63 plans in 2020), palliative care (23 plans in 2019 and 58 in 2020), non-opioid pain management (24 plans in 2019 and 201 plans in 2020), in-home support services (71 plans in 2019 and 148 in 2020),...
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