Money, Data, and Backup Plans: Why In-Home Medicare Advantage Benefits are Rolling Out Slowly Despite Medicare Advantage (MA) plans being recently allowed to cover a wide variety of in-home services and supports, insurers have been slow to roll out new supplemental benefits. In 2019, only 3% of Medicare Advantage plans offered in-home care services, according to AARP. Some think the tides will turn in 2020 — but even then, roadblocks remain, the biggest being finances, data a

With the rapidly aging population in the U.S., the need for dementia care isn’t going anywhere anytime soon. The specialty remains ripe with opportunity for in-home care providers, industry experts say. In fact, the boom in specialized dementia care is a big reason why home care has taken over health care’s center stage of late. “It’s more than just demand in terms of the size of your census,” Felton Magee, president and CEO of Regent Healthcare, said Wednesday during a panel