Home Health Care News March 29, 2024
Patrick Filbin

At a macro level, home health organizations are struggling with Medicare Advantage (MA) for two main reasons: benefit design and reimbursement.

In order to build stronger relationships with MA plans, agencies are undergoing a strategic shift in their service offerings to meet the unique challenges posed by MA patients.

Those shifts include partnering with other stakeholders to have a clear understanding of what MA plans want.

“Right now, the benefit design of MA plans feels like it’s designed simply to minimize costs,” Michael Johnson, president of home health at BAYADA Home Health Care, told Home Health Care News. “How do we design a benefit that maximizes outcome but takes costs into effect? That’s where we’ve been at odds with each...

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