Home Health Care News September 12, 2024
Essentia Health – a regional, nonprofit health system with a substantial home health arm – announced this week that it will no longer serve as an in-network provider for UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH) and Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM) Medicare Advantage (MA) plans. It is the latest example of home-focused health care providers drawing a line in the sand with certain payers.
Those examples can still be classified as anecdotal, but they are close to forming a trend.
It’s also likely that each move like this will beget similar moves by other providers.
“Like many other health systems, we have been re-evaluating our participation in Medicare Advantage plans that place added strain on our patients by too often denying or delaying...
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