Home Health Care News April 6, 2022
New data relating to Special Supplemental Benefits for the Chronically Ill (SSBCI) has been released. And while there are plenty of kinks to work through before these benefits become a significant revenue driver for home-based care agencies, their increasing popularity is undoubtedly encouraging.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) unveiled a pathway for primarily health-related supplemental benefits to be offered through Medicare Advantage (MA) plans in 2018, then a year later, created the SSBCI pathway.
Uptick in usage for each pathway’s benefits has been slow and steady. Providers can’t reach a consensus on whether the benefits are something everyone in the home-based care space should be following, or if the opportunity that lies within these benefits is meager.
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