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CMS to Sunset Look-Alike Dual-Eligible Special Needs Plans in 2023

Hospice News

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in 2023 will phase out dual-eligibility special needs look-alike plans within Medicare Advantage. Close to 12 million people in the United States qualify for both Medicare and Medicaid. Some hospice patients rely on these plans for other health needs, such as nursing home costs.

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Aging and Homelessness: Margot Kushel

GeriPal

So we realized that we had a series of cross-sectional studies in San Francisco from the early 1990s to 2003. We looked at it and realized that in the early 1990s, 11% of folks were 50 and over, and by 2003, 37% were. A lot of them need what we would call in the middle class world assisted living, right?