Home Health Care News May 23, 2022
Home health care providers and Medicare-for-all advocates certainly agree on their general disliking of Medicare Advantage (MA).
The one problem is that these advocates are also fervently against direct contracting in traditional Medicare. And that is an area where many home-based care providers believed they could enter into new, value-based care arrangements either with the federal government directly or through another direct-contracting entity (DCE).
Though there have been a few iterations of direct contracting for traditional Medicare, each has been met with an outcry – no matter the responsible White House administration – putting into question whether these models will ever fully come to fruition as some providers hoped they would.
“ACO reach is not the same thing as Medicare...