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Perspectives on Opportunities and Challenges for Medicare Advantage Plans to Address Social Determinants of Health via the CHRONIC Care Act
There is increasing recognition of the role of social determinants of health (SDOH) in the ability of Medicare Advantage (MA) enrollees to obtain needed care. The 2018 CHRONIC Care Act established Special Supplemental Benefits for the Chronically Ill (SSBCI), which for the first time gives MA plans...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6614931/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31282241 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0046958019862120 |
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description | There is increasing recognition of the role of social determinants of health (SDOH) in the ability of Medicare Advantage (MA) enrollees to obtain needed care. The 2018 CHRONIC Care Act established Special Supplemental Benefits for the Chronically Ill (SSBCI), which for the first time gives MA plans the flexibility to provide supplemental benefits to enrollees to address SDOH. Given the role of SDOH in chronic disease, this represents an opportunity for MA plans to address underlying issues not strictly health care related with which MA enrollees struggle and that affect their overall health. MA plans have experimented with different approaches to address SDOH but have been limited by the lack of ability to offer services as part of covered benefits and reliance on partnerships, grants, and other funding sources to support the provision of these services. The effect of this policy and how it may evolve before implementation begins in 2020 remains uncertain as we wait to see how MA plans will interpret eligibility criteria and services offered without any additional allotted funding. |
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spelling | pubmed-66149312019-07-16 Perspectives on Opportunities and Challenges for Medicare Advantage Plans to Address Social Determinants of Health via the CHRONIC Care Act Sorbero, Melony E. Kranz, Ashley M. Inquiry Special Collection: Medicare Advantage There is increasing recognition of the role of social determinants of health (SDOH) in the ability of Medicare Advantage (MA) enrollees to obtain needed care. The 2018 CHRONIC Care Act established Special Supplemental Benefits for the Chronically Ill (SSBCI), which for the first time gives MA plans the flexibility to provide supplemental benefits to enrollees to address SDOH. Given the role of SDOH in chronic disease, this represents an opportunity for MA plans to address underlying issues not strictly health care related with which MA enrollees struggle and that affect their overall health. MA plans have experimented with different approaches to address SDOH but have been limited by the lack of ability to offer services as part of covered benefits and reliance on partnerships, grants, and other funding sources to support the provision of these services. The effect of this policy and how it may evolve before implementation begins in 2020 remains uncertain as we wait to see how MA plans will interpret eligibility criteria and services offered without any additional allotted funding. SAGE Publications 2019-07-07 /pmc/articles/PMC6614931/ /pubmed/31282241 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0046958019862120 Text en © The Author(s) 2019 http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
spellingShingle | Special Collection: Medicare Advantage Sorbero, Melony E. Kranz, Ashley M. Perspectives on Opportunities and Challenges for Medicare Advantage Plans to Address Social Determinants of Health via the CHRONIC Care Act |
title | Perspectives on Opportunities and Challenges for Medicare Advantage
Plans to Address Social Determinants of Health via the CHRONIC Care
Act |
title_full | Perspectives on Opportunities and Challenges for Medicare Advantage
Plans to Address Social Determinants of Health via the CHRONIC Care
Act |
title_fullStr | Perspectives on Opportunities and Challenges for Medicare Advantage
Plans to Address Social Determinants of Health via the CHRONIC Care
Act |
title_full_unstemmed | Perspectives on Opportunities and Challenges for Medicare Advantage
Plans to Address Social Determinants of Health via the CHRONIC Care
Act |
title_short | Perspectives on Opportunities and Challenges for Medicare Advantage
Plans to Address Social Determinants of Health via the CHRONIC Care
Act |
title_sort | perspectives on opportunities and challenges for medicare advantage
plans to address social determinants of health via the chronic care
act |
topic | Special Collection: Medicare Advantage |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6614931/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31282241 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0046958019862120 |
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