Population Health & Person-Centered Care

Allison Rizer and Laura Benzing share their perspective on Medicare Advantage supplemental benefits in Health Affairs.

Home Health Care News reports on Anne Tumlinson's testimony on HCBS, "Halting HCBS support is like bringing an umbrella to a hurricane."

Anne Tumlinson testified before the Senate Committe on Aging about the importance of funding and investing in home and community-based services to better support aging seniors. This includes more consideration for adequately funding caregivers who make it possible for seniors to remain safely at home .

States are considering policies to support contracting with managed care organizations to deliver value-based care. Insurer-provider tensions and state goals have led others to adopt approaches that stop short of fully delegating administration.

Authors: Allison Rizer, Amy Abdnor, Arielle Mir If you had to choose between living at home or in a nursing facility, which would you choose if you had a disability or were too frail to care for yourself? Most would likely choose their home, but they need support to do so. Home and community-based services (HCBS) ... HCBS – Just One Piece of the Puzzle

The Medicare Health Outcomes Survey (HOS) aims to gather meaningful self-reported data from Medicare Advantage (MA) beneficiaries to measure health plan quality performance. As Congress and CMS seek to advance health equity and to better understand and quantify the quality of care received by Medicare beneficiaries, this report outlines recommendations to address the shortcomings of the HOS and modernize it to better reflect and understand the changing Medicare population.

Over 12 million people in the United States are enrolled in Medicare and Medicaid. Dual eligible beneficiaries are more likely than Medicare-only population to experience numerous health and social markets.

This blog highlights the importance of providing housing to older adults during the pandemic and explores authorities currently available to Medicare Advantage plans to do so, which were recently cited in CMS guidance.

Inequities experienced by diverse Medicare beneficiaries were exposed during the pandemic. Research shows that Black and Latinx MA enrollees experience greater clinical complexity, while receiving receive more preventive services at a lower cost.

Social need is (rightfully) a growing focus among healthcare policy makers...