News Report | April 14, 2019
Medicare Advantage To Offer Supplemental Benefits For Social Determinants In 2020
Starting in 2020, Medicare Advantage plans will be able to offer supplemental benefits that are not necessarily health-related to address members’ non-medical needs considered social determinants of health (SDOH). The supplemental benefits can be offered to targeted groups of members. On April 1, 2019, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the details in the 2020 Medicare Advantage Rate Announcement and Final Call Letter.
In 2019, CMS expanded the definition of health-related supplemental benefits that Medicare Advantage plans could offer to enrollees, where the primary purpose of the benefits would be daily maintenance of health . . .