Fierce Healthcare December 9, 2019
A number of operational challenges hinder payers’ use of MA supplemental benefits, a new report shows.
Though federal regulators have provided health plans additional flexibility to offer supplemental benefits in Medicare Advantage, uptake of these options has been relatively slow thanks to many operational challenges, a new report shows.
Researchers at the Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy issued a brief examining the growth of supplemental benefits and the barriers that remain to expansion. They found that the number of plans offering these options has grown since 2019, when the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services first allowed them to do so.
Between 2019 and 2020, the number of plans offering coverage for adult day care increased from zero...
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