“Number of MA plans offering home care benefit to skyrocket in 2022”

“Number of MA plans offering home care benefit to skyrocket in 2022,” by Diane Eastabrook, McKnight’s Home Care

  

Quote:

“The number of Medicare Advantage plans offering home care as a supplemental benefit will increase by 70% next year compared to this year, according to  ATI Advisory. Tyler Overstreet Cromer, principal at the elder care advisory firm, told McKnight’s Home Care Daily Pulse that 729 MA plans will offer home care supplemental benefits in 2022 compared to 429 in 2021. … While the 729 MA plans offering home care benefits represent only a fraction of the 5,400 MA plans nationwide, Cromer said home care is one of the most popular supplemental benefits since the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services began granting MA plans greater flexibility in their benefit offerings in 2018.”

 

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

Inflated headline deflated by facts. The increase from 429 to 729 (70%) pales in comparison to the number of plans that still don’t offer home care benefits, 4,671. Wake me when the total number of plans offering the benefits, not the percentage of plans already offering the benefits, goes up by 70%.