McKnight’s Senior Living August 4, 2021
Diane Eastabrook

As Medicare Advantage (MA) plans grow in popularity, home healthcare agencies need to start forming alliances with private payers that offer those plans. That’s the advice healthcare consultant Michael Puskarich of McBee Associates offered to attendees Tuesday at a session of the National Association for Home Care & Hospice Financial Management Conference in Chicago.

“Meet with the payer and find out what the pain points might be,” Puskarich advised the audience. “Is it their diabetic patient pool? Is it surgery patients? Talk about a program and put it into place.”

MA enrollment has doubled over the past decade. Today more than a third of people 65 and older are covered by MA plans; by the end of the decade more...

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Topics: Conferences / Podcast, Insurance, Medicare Advantage, Payer, Post-Acute Care, Provider, Trends
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