Few Medicare Advantage plans cover social needs for chronically ill patients

Date: 05/22/2020

Most Medicare Advantage plans are not offering chronically ill enrollees supplemental benefits to address social needs that were added to the government health program in 2018 in an effort to improve health outcomes and achieve cost savings, a U.S. study suggests.

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