McKnight’s Senior Living February 22, 2024
A newly formed alliance of healthcare and consumer organizations has formed to advance the integration of Medicare and Medicaid for dually eligible nursing home residents and other older adults.
“People who are dually eligible make up a large portion of nursing home residents, and the outcomes they experience today are suboptimal,” Mark E Miller, PhD, told the McKnight’s Business Daily.
Miller is executive vice president of healthcare at Arnold Ventures, a founding member of the new Medicare-Medicaid Integration Alliance. Other founding members include the Association for Community Affiliated Plans, Community Catalyst, Justice in Aging and the Medicare Rights Center.
Almost 1 million dually eligible older adults live in skilled nursing facilities, and the rates of potentially avoidable hospitalizations among...