Home Health Care News May 13, 2020
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has granted further flexibility to Medicare Advantage (MA) plans to offer more benefits to beneficiaries during the COVID-19 crisis. For home care providers, that could mean more business opportunity.
The Special Supplemental Benefits for the Chronically Ill (SSBCI) program was announced in 2019 for the 2020 plan year. Broadly, it allows MA plans to offer services such as non-medical transportation, meal support, home modification and other “general supports for living” to certain populations.
As of March, there were at least 245 plans offering one or more of the SSBCI options, according to Washington, D.C.-based research and advisory services firm ATI Advisory. But that number could increase now, as CMS has offered rare...
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