1,091 MA Plans To Offer In-Home Support Services In 2023, A Significant Increase

Home Health Care News | By Andrew Donlan
 
Medicare Advantage (MA) plans are now allowed to tout the benefits they will be offering their members in 2023. Home-based care providers should be “delighted” at what the preliminary data shows.
 
That’s according to Tyler Cromer, a principal at the Washington, D.C.-based research and advocacy organization ATI Advisory.
 
Specifically, in-home support services (IHSS) will be available in 1,091 MA plans in 2023, which accounts for almost one in every five plans. That number is up 13% from 2022, according to ATI Advisory.
 
“The growth for in-home support services is really significant,” Cromer told Home Health Care News. “I don’t think it’s out of line with what we would expect. But if anything, it’s a little bit higher than we might have expected. This is really significant growth, both in real numbers and as a percentage of the overall number of plans. It’s really exciting.”
 
The 1,091 plans offering IHSS are the ones doing so through the primarily health-related benefits. IHSS are unique in that plans have the ability to offer them through the primarily health-related pathway or through the Special Supplemental Benefits for the Chronically Ill (SSBCI) one.
 
Data on that latter won’t be available for a couple of months. But for context, 216 plans offered IHSS through the SSBCI pathway last year.
 
“It’s really good news for home-based care providers,” Cromer said.

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