Managed Care Mag March 28, 2019
Cigna–HealthSpring and Anthem expand their Medicare Advantage offerings to include such things as hot meals and transportation to providers.
Change happened, says Brent J. Sanders, who oversees Cigna–HealthSpring, Cigna’s Medicare Advantage (MA) offering, because CMS and health insurers talked about what needed to be done to better address the social determinants of health (SDOH) for beneficiaries. That led to a policy, implemented last year by CMS, that allows for the provision of daily maintenance care using nonskilled in-home providers, the kind of services usually given in assisted-living facilities.
“If you look over the past 18 months or so, CMS has increasingly requested information from the industry,” says Sanders. “They are proactively engaging all sorts of stakeholders in the health care...
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