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The needs of dually enrolled beneficiaries largely parallel the needs of high-cost, high-need patients more broadly

• Social and medical risks are often intertwined.
• The different care needs among the heterogeneous subpopulations of dually enrolled members present a challenge for health plans.

Health plans, providers, and community partners adopt a variety of strategies to meet the varied needs of dually enrolled and other high-cost, high-need beneficiaries

• There are four categories of strategies: (1) identifying needs and data analytics to better target programs toward patients at high risk for hospitalization, readmission, and nursing home admission; (2) addressing clinical needs through care management and coordination; (3) meeting the social needs of dually enrolled beneficiaries by either referring them to existing programs that address housing, food security, and transportation needs or providing these services directly; and (4) undertaking administrative actions to better integrate Medicare and Medicaid.

Little information is available about resources or costs required to implement and sustain these strategies

• This is a major gap in the literature and proved to be difficult for interviewees to describe in detail.

A strong, consistent evidence base is lacking

• Long-term follow-up is still lacking, because many programs are new.
• Many studies examine only associations, and there are few randomized trials of such strategies.
• Many studies are of single programs or single centers.
• Care coordination for selected chronic conditions has the strongest evidence base.

Beneficiaries dually enrolled in Medicare and Medicaid are less likely to receive high-quality care and less likely to be enrolled in plans that perform well in the Medicare Advantage (MA) Star Rating program than those who are not dually enrolled. However, some plans with a high proportion of beneficiaries dually enrolled in Medicare and Medicaid appear to perform well in the Star Rating program. These findings suggest that some plans have identified effective ways to meet the needs of their dually enrolled beneficiaries. As part of a qualitative study on the types of services MA plans implement and the types of resources they use to meet the needs of dually enrolled and other high-cost, high-need beneficiaries, the authors conducted an environmental scan of the literature and key informant interviews, with the goal of developing a typology of the services that MA plans implement. The findings can be used to develop a series of case studies of high- and low-performing MA plans to further explore this topic.

• Chapter One

  Introduction

• Chapter Two

  Approach

• Chapter Three

  Medicare Advantage Contract Structure

• Chapter Four

  Dually Enrolled Beneficiaries and Challenges to Obtaining Care

• Chapter Five

  Strategies Used by Health Plans, Providers, and Community Partners

• Chapter Six

  Resources Required to Implement Strategies

• Chapter Seven

  Evidence of Success

• Chapter Eight

  Unanswered Questions and Next Steps

• Chapter Nine

  Summary and Conclusions

• Appendix A

  Discussion Guide

• Appendix B

  Financial Alignment Demonstrations

• Appendix C

  Examples of Risk Stratification Used by Medicare-Medicaid Plans

• Appendix D

  Potential Targets for Case Studies Identified Through Environmental Scan and Interviews

• Appendix E

  Literature Cited in Chapter Seven, "Evidence of Success"