Healthcare DIVE June 13, 2018
Meg Bryant

The push toward valued-based care and population health management has raised visibility around nonmedical conditions that impact health outcomes.

Improving health outcomes using population health strategies could get a major boost with a new Medicare Advantage rule taking effect this week.

Payers will now be able to work with companies like Uber or Lyft to provide transportation, for example, as part of a more complete set of benefits for the quickly growing MA population.

CMS issued a final rule in May giving MA plans more flexibility in determining the types of supplemental benefits they can offer chronically ill enrollees, including nonmedical benefits. The new policy, part of a broad 2019 Medicare payment rule, means plans like UnitedHealthcare and Humana aren’t...

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Topics: CMS, Govt Agencies, Health System / Hospital, Insurance, Medicare Advantage, Payment Models, Physician, Population Health Mgmt, Primary care, Provider, Technology, Value Based
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