Home Health Care News August 29, 2023
When home-based care providers think about the “middlemen” they are frustrated with, their minds will likely wander to the conveners in between themselves and Medicare Advantage (MA) plans.
Undoubtedly, some of those conveners play a middleman role, and can strain the relationship between providers, payers and patients.
But they aren’t the only ones. In fact, a middleman is anyone who comes in between a patient and their care provider – whether that be a physician or a home-based care worker – SCAN Group CEO Sachin Jain told Home Health Care News.
“When I think of the middleman, it’s all these kind of middleware companies that are trying to ‘make the system more efficient,’” Jain said. “But in the process, they...