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Very Important:
Considering that home health is going to be a burgeoning cost center beginning in 2020, this is background information you should be familiar with.
If for no other reason than to demonstrate the vast breadth of your knowledge when it comes up.
And it will come up.
Medicare Advantage as a solution for Medicare for All
When you come across headlines like this, check out the source. If they have anything to do with Medicare Advantage, anything at all, discount it.
Medicare Advantage Organizations are deathly afraid of “Medicare for all”—unless there’s a role for them.
(spoiler alert: because of the billions MAOs have in revenue, “Medicare for all” will include them, count on it)
Another example:
Customer Satisfaction in Medicare Advantage is rising
This one, though, is from J. D. Power, so you should take it at least a little seriously
Be pre-emptive and fix this yourself for your network, because the blow back’s coming.
Judging from what I’m hearing from my sources inside CMS, it’s going to involve penalties, not bonuses.
New trends in Medicare Advantage compliance enforcement
Useful as a summary of enforcement to date, but the new trends?. . .
Pretty much nothing at all.
Tomism
To succeed within a complex system, pick the single action that’s the simplest yet will move the needle the most.
Execute it.
Follow the results.
Then do it again, until you’re where you need to be.