{"id":16001,"date":"2020-05-14T11:19:30","date_gmt":"2020-05-14T15:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=16001"},"modified":"2020-05-14T11:19:30","modified_gmt":"2020-05-14T15:19:30","slug":"the-special-supplemental-benefits-for-the-chronically-ill-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=16001","title":{"rendered":"The Special Supplemental Benefits for the Chronically Ill program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Special Supplemental Benefits for the Chronically Ill (SSBCI) program allows Medicare Advantage (MA) plans to offer services such as non-medical transportation, meal support, home modifications another \u201cgeneral supports for living\u201d to certain populations. According to ATI Advisory, a research and advisory firm in Washington, DC, as of March, there were at least 245 plans offering one or more of the SSBCI options but that number could increase now as CMS has offered rare flexibility to plans to increase their benefit packages mid-year.\u00a0 Read article <a href=\"https:\/\/homehealthcarenews.com\/2020\/05\/covid-19-an-inflection-point-for-medicare-advantage-that-home-care-providers\/\">here\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/iStock_000023372772Small-700x465.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8007\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/iStock_000023372772Small-700x465-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/iStock_000023372772Small-700x465-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/iStock_000023372772Small-700x465.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice:<\/strong> 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 Special Supplemental Benefits for the Chronically Ill (SSBCI) program allows Medicare Advantage (MA) plans to offer services such as<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,20,5,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging","category-health-care-redesign","category-home-health-services","category-medicare-advantage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16001","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=16001"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16002,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16001\/revisions\/16002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}