{"id":12962,"date":"2019-04-02T08:53:55","date_gmt":"2019-04-02T12:53:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=12962"},"modified":"2019-04-02T08:53:55","modified_gmt":"2019-04-02T12:53:55","slug":"cms-letting-medicare-advantage-plans-to-offer-new-benefits-in-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=12962","title":{"rendered":"CMS letting Medicare Advantage plans to offer new benefits in 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">The officials at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) have included a change in the final rules for Special Supplemental Benefits for the Chronically Ill (SSBCI) allowing Medicare Advantage plans if they choose to do so, put permanent wheelchair ramps in enrollee\u2019s homes in 2020. CMS put the final SSBCI in the final bidder package for the Medicare Advantage and Medicare Part D plans. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thinkadvisor.com\/2019\/04\/01\/medicare-advantage-managers-give-2020-ltc-sample-details\/\">Read article here\u2026<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/CMS-logo-2-e1524659904197.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10228\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/CMS-logo-2-300x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre>Notice: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The officials at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) have included a change in the final rules for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,20,9,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cms","category-health-care-redesign","category-medicare-advantage","category-part-dprescription-drugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12962"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12963,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12962\/revisions\/12963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}