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"Area Agencies on Aging and other aging network service providers can help to achieve Triple Aim goals by adding value in managing chronic conditions; activating patients and families; reducing hospital readmissions; avoiding long-term institutionalization; and helping people continue living in the community where they overwhelmingly prefer to be. The trend toward integration presents unique opportunities for AAAs ... to contract with healthcare entities seeking to address the health-related social needs of the people whom they serve."

Doing Business: A Pathway to Coordination Why AAAs are busy contracting with community-based organizations, and how it's paying off.

"The updates made in this final rule also clarify that MA plans can seek partnerships with CBOs to provide SSBCI and health-related benefits under the broader definition....These rule changes are important because they open the door even wider for MA plans to contract with aging and disability CBOs to deliver services that are part of SSBCI and health-related supplemental benefits that can improve health outcomes and quality of life for plan members."

Changes to Medicare Advantage Reinforce the Role of CBOs in Supplemental Benefits - Aging and Disability Business Institute A final rule published by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) earlier this year has implications for aging and disability community-based organizations (CBOs) seeking and engaging in contract work with Medicare Advantage (MA) plans. The new rule aligns existing regulation with a serie...

With years of expertise in delivering home and community based services addressing the social determinants of health for older adults and people with disabilities, Ohio's Area Agencies on Aging are well positioned to deliver Medicare Advantage Special Supplemental Benefits for Individuals with Chronic Illness.

Find out more about Medicare Advantage SSBCI:https://bipartisanpolicy.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/BPC-One-Pager-Final.pdf