Home Health Care News February 24, 2019
As if home care agencies needed any more encouragement to dive into the Medicare Advantage (MA) world, they got some last week — courtesy of a well-known Capitol Hill veteran.
Home care providers have been positioning their businesses to appeal to potential MA players since April 2018, when Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) policymakers announced that certain in-home care services and supports would be allowable as supplemental benefits starting in 2019. FirstLight Home Care CEO Jeff Bevis, CareLinx CEO Sherwin Sheik, Elara Caring CEO Scott Herman and other executives have all recently discussed the upside the MA program presents, though the lion’s share of opportunities likely won’t arise until 2020 or 2021.
Through Medicare Advantage, the government...
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