Hospice News February 10, 2021
The number of Medicare Advantage health plans that are offering palliative care as a supplemental benefit more than doubled between 2020 and 2021. This represents a larger trend of plans offering an increasing number primarily health-related supplemental benefits.
Analysis by the consulting firm ATI Advisory found that the number of health plans offering home-based palliative care coverage jump to 134 in 2021, up from 61 last year. In-home support services, food services and social needs benefits also saw a substantial rise. All told, more than 1,350 plans are offering primarily health-related supplemental benefits this year. In 2020, the total was 635.
“There are considerable increases in [supplemental benefits] from Plan Year 2020 to Plan Year 2021,” ATI indicated....
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