{"id":17723,"date":"2021-02-24T08:33:29","date_gmt":"2021-02-24T13:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=17723"},"modified":"2021-02-24T08:33:46","modified_gmt":"2021-02-24T13:33:46","slug":"medicare-advantage-plans-are-increasing-adoption-of-new-supplemental-benefits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=17723","title":{"rendered":"Medicare Advantage plans are increasing the adoption of new supplemental benefits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the core values of the Medicare Advantage (MA) program is the acceleration of supplemental benefits. These non-medical have contributed to the significant growth of MA plans to the point where one in three Medicare beneficiaries are now enrolled in MA plans. Since the changes in 2018 and 2019, the scope of supplemental benefits was expanded to include benefits that support daily maintenance of health and address social determinants of health for beneficiaries with chronic disease. Read the article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthaffairs.org\/do\/10.1377\/hblog20210218.548285\/full\/\">here\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/dreamstime_m_33572724medicare.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7817\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/dreamstime_m_33572724medicare-300x157.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"157\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/dreamstime_m_33572724medicare-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/dreamstime_m_33572724medicare-768x402.jpg 768w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/dreamstime_m_33572724medicare-1024x536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/dreamstime_m_33572724medicare-390x205.jpg 390w\" 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>One of the core values of the Medicare Advantage (MA) program is the acceleration of supplemental benefits. These non-medical have<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medicare-advantage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17723","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=17723"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17725,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17723\/revisions\/17725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}