“4 Top Medicare Advantage Mini LTC Benefits,” by Allison Bell, ThinkAdvisor

“The most popular of the top five new supplemental benefits is a wellness benefit, not a short-term care version of an LTC benefit: 1,653 of the plans the Avalere analysts reviewed will offer nicotine replacement therapy in 2019. For data on the four most common mini-LTC-type benefits, see the data cards in the slideshow above. (Hover your cursor pointer over the slideshow box to see the arrows that steer the slides back and forth.)”

LTC Comment (from Stephen A. Moses, President, Center for Long-Term Care Reform):

These mini-benes sure aren’t going to replace LTCI, long or short, but that won’t matter if consumers think or pretend they do.