Post-Acute Care Providers and COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic will impose unprecedented stresses on our Nation’s hospitals, whose capacity falls well short of the projected demand for beds. As one option to expand capacity…
Telehealth and COVID-19
Expanding access to telehealth is a top strategy to prevent avoidable hospitalizations and increase the capacity of our health system during the current crisis we are experiencing…
Newly Expanded Non-Medical Supplemental Benefits in Medicare Advantage: A Primer
Medicare Advantage plans can now offer a wide range of diverse benefits to address the needs of the aging population, through newly expanded supplemental benefits. This expansion…
Enrollment, Environment, and Efficiency: How the New Perennial Consortium Checks the Boxes for I-SNP Readiness
Few would expect nursing homes and assisted living operators to be able or willing to manage health care risk for some of the highest-cost Medicare beneficiaries. Yet, earlier this month…
The Big Problem With Post-Acute Care: Three Things Hospitals and Managed Care Plans Can Do To Help
For frail older adults, an inpatient hospital stay can be destabilizing, often marking the beginning of a decline in functioning. For these folks and their families, the post-hospital…
CHRONIC Care Act Advances the Business Case for Innovation
In February 2018, the Creating High-Quality Results and Outcomes Necessary to Improve Chronic (CHRONIC) Care Act (CCA) was passed by Congress…
The Need for Financing Solutions
Our chances are 50/50 that in our old age, we’ll need someone else’s help with basic activities of daily life—like bathing, dressing, eating, getting out of bed. Many families are caught off guard…
Under-Financing of Long Term Care Creates Economic Insecurity For Families
ATI founder, Anne Tumlinson, testifies to on the Federal Commission on Long Term Care’s recommended changes to U.S. long-term care financing and delivery system.