Home Health Care News June 13, 2021
The Medicare Advantage (MA) opportunity isn’t one that has happened overnight for home care providers, with some industry insiders even describing it as a “slow burn.” In more recent years, a shift has begun to take place, however.
Although MA has become a bigger piece of the overall Medicare program puzzle, home care only stepped into the picture in 2019. The previous year, the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a final rule that mandated non-medical in-home care services as a benefit for MA plans.
CMS continued to stretch the flexibility around the rules, allowing coverage for benefits that “have a reasonable expectation of improving or maintaining the health or overall function” for individuals with chronic conditions.
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