“CMS to Allow Non-Skilled Home Care Benefit in Medicare Advantage,” by Amy Baxter, Home Health Care News

“Non-skilled in-home care supports will be included as a supplemental benefit in Medicare Advantage plans in 2019, according to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Service (CMS), which announced the policy change Thursday afternoon. The move marks the first time that CMS has allowed an item or service to be eligible as a supplemental benefit that covers daily maintenance.”

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

Kind of sounds like a long-term care benefit. Will consumers see this as one less reason to have LTCI?

CMS to Allow Non-Skilled Home Care Benefit in Medicare Advantage

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