Health Payer Intelligence July 5, 2018
Providing Medicare and Medicaid home health benefits may be able to stabilize care costs for older beneficiaries.
Providing extended home health benefits for Medicare beneficiaries is likely to stabilize care costs for public payer programs, according to a new analysis from the Commonwealth Fund.
Researchers from the Hilltop Institute and Johns Hopkins University reviewed healthcare costs and outcomes for Maryland’s Medicaid Community First Choice (CFC) Program, which provides supplemental behavioral and long term support services (LTSS) to dual-eligible Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries.
The team found that per member spending within the CFC Program remained level even as the number of program participants increased and overall expenditures grew.