Healthcare DIVE June 13, 2018
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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