Fierce Healthcare July 25, 2019
Paige Minemyer

A new report highlights why the full rollout of supplemental benefits in Medicare Advantage is a key moment for Medicare.

It’s crucial that the rollout of early supplemental benefits in Medicare Advantage (MA) is done carefully to set a strong foundation to build from.

A new report from Anne Tumlinson Innovations, the SCAN Foundation and the Long-Term Quality Alliance aims to help MA plan sponsors implement these new benefits through a set of guiding principles. The report calls the new benefits a “turning point in Medicare policy.”

Bruce Chernof, M.D., president and CEO of the SCAN Foundation, told FierceHealthcare that Medicare was implemented initially for a very different demography of seniors than those enrolled in the program...

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