Fierce Healthcare September 19, 2019
Medicare Advantage (MA) insurers want to offer supplemental benefits but warn that the additional flexibilities offered by the feds may not be enough to really target beneficiaries, a new report shows.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently finalized new flexibilities to allow MA plan sponsors to offer nontraditional benefits that target the social determinants of health such as air quality tools, transportation and meals for the 2020 plan year. CMS broadened those options beginning in the 2019 plan year.
Researchers at the Urban Institute conducted a series of interviews with MA insurers, health insurance experts and social services providers that highlighted several barriers to embracing benefits that target the social determinants of health: funding challenges...
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