Medicare Advantage beneficiaries experience higher rates of problems related to healthcare spending compared to traditional Medicare beneficiaries who have Medicare supplemental coverage, according to...
Updated 6/30/21: Humana's Bold Goal strategy led to a 6.8 percent decrease in the number of unhealthy days for San Antonio members. A previous version listed 8.6 percent as the...
Humana has announced plans to open additional Humana Neighborhood Centers across North Carolina to improve the physical and mental health of its Medicare Advantage members.
Humana Neighborhood Centers...
Alignment Healthcare (Alignment) is extending its Medicare Advantage (MA) footprint in Arizona, North Carolina, and Nevada to provide coverage for more senior beneficiaries.
Starting in 2022,...
Medicare Advantage member satisfaction levels have increased in 2021, but member engagement has remained low, according to the JD Power 2021 US Medicare Advantage study.
“Medicare Advantage...
Medicare Advantage plans may better address racial care disparities than fee-for-service Medicare, according to the second in a series of reports that ATI Advisory has prepared for Better Medicare...
A small fraction of the Medicaid population utilizes non-emergency medical transportation (NEMT) benefits, but for that community of beneficiaries NEMT programs can be indispensable, a MACPAC...
Humana’s CenterWell Senior Primary Care (CenterWell) is expanding its value-based care model to Original Medicare members to improve care quality and health outcomes, as well as lower the cost of...
After a year of accelerating home healthcare services, payers can build on their coronavirus home healthcare strategies to bolster their home healthcare programs more permanently.
Hospital...
Congress and the Biden administration will have to determine which emergency, COVID-19 Medicare policies should be made permanent or be extended, according to a recent Commonwealth Fund study, and...
Medicare Advantage dual eligibles reported better access to care and access to telehealth during the coronavirus pandemic than traditional Medicare beneficiaries did, a report from NORC at the...
SCAN Health Plan has developed a program to help combat loneliness stemming from social isolation and to improve senior mental healthcare.
The coronavirus pandemic and the requisite isolation due to...
Expanding access to Medicare could help provide coverage for millions of Americans, but the premiums could increase compared to some individuals’ current subsidized exchange plans, according to...
In 2020, Medicare Advantage plans attracted members with chronic diseases but still maintained lower out-of-pocket healthcare spending for members than fee-for-service Medicare coverage did, a Better...
While some social determinants of health factors such as food security and high-speed internet access have improved in recent years, seniors experienced an increase in factors such as poverty and...
In 2020, Humana’s Bold Goal program saw better Medicare Advantage health outcomes in physical and mental healthcare than the payer's Medicare Advantage community overall, Humana’s most...
Adults ages 65 and older with traditional Medicare boasted similar access to care and a lower rate of cost barriers to care when compared with privately-insured seniors between the ages of 50 and 64, a...
UnitedHealthcare has announced the launch of a new program that aims to lower hospital readmissions by helping Group Retiree Medicare Advantage beneficiaries safely transition back home after discharge...
Gross margins and medical loss ratios from 2020 may confirm that payer profitability increased during the coronavirus pandemic, according to a brief from Kaiser Family Foundation.
The researchers...
Humana announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire the rest of the Kindred at Home program as part of its home healthcare expansion.
“We continue to invest in assets that allow...
