In the past few years, the COVID-19 pandemic has dominated our attention, disrupting traditional healthcare delivery and access. During this time, member access to care was largely focused on adapting and responding to the pandemic. Now that the industry has largely reached stabilization…

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently released data that highlights the benefit designs of 2023 Medicare Advantage (MA) plans, inclusive of each MA product’s dental offering. To help our clients understand the results, HealthScape Advisors has quickly ingested the…

Key Highlights of This Brief: Recent regulatory flexibilities applied to supplemental benefits have significantly expanded the breadth of offerings health plans can explore. Experimentation with initial non-Medicare covered benefits (e.g., dental, vision, hearing) has quickly escalated to “table stakes” offerings…

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Innovation Center recently introduced the Accountable Care Organization Realizing Equity, Access, and Community Health (ACO REACH) Model as a redesign of the Global Professional Direct Contracting Model (GPDC). The move represents the…

Medicare Advantage (MA)—the alternative to traditional Medicare which allows seniors to receive Part A and B benefits through private insurance—continues to rise in popularity. As of April 2022, almost half (46%)¹ of all Medicare beneficiaries are enrolled in an MA plan.…

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Innovation Center recently provided long- awaited clarification on the status of the Direct Contracting program. CMS has formally canceled the Geographic Direct Contracting Model (Geo) and is phasing out the Global and…

Reprinted with AIS Health permission from the January 6, 2022, issue of RADAR on Medicare Advantage With continued emphasis on member experience, several new Part C measures and a directional shift to closing health care inequities, 2022 stands to be…

Reprinted with AIS Health permission from the January 6, 2022, issue of RADAR on Medicare Advantage For the Medicare Advantage industry, change wasn’t a major outcome of the Biden administration’s first year in office. But for 2022, MA organizations face…

Every January, we provide our perspective on areas of increasing importance and value for health plans for the upcoming year. Our prospective view of 2021 focused on the need for health plans to strike a balance between innovation and investment…

Health plans are undergoing a transformation as they evolve their capabilities and business models to not only use data in new and innovative ways, but also cope with the increasing volume, variety and velocity of data. Given the impact COVID-19…