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Maintaining Medicare Supplement Growth & Profitability: Leveraging CMMI Models
The next era of Medicare Supplement profitability will not be driven by pricing sophistication alone. It will be driven by strategic alignment with federally funded care transformation models.
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The Rate Shock is Real. Dementia Care is the Margin Lever Plans Can No Longer Ignore.
The “good old days” of easy Medicare Advantage top-line growth are officially over. With a nearly flat 0.09% revenue increase proposed for 2027, all major insurers, UnitedHealth Group Humana, and CVS Aetna (to name a few) saw their stocks plummet 15 - 20%, last Tuesday, signaling that Wall Street understands what plan executives now face: a future where margins must be earned through medical cost management.
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Interim HealthCare Partners with Ceresti Health to Expand Dementia Care Nationwide
Interim HealthCare is partnering with Ceresti to expand specialized support for people living with dementia and their family caregivers. Designed to meet families where they are, this partnership recognizes that dementia care often happens outside of a hospital setting. And the partnership leverages the CMS GUIDE (Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience) Model, which calls for increased education and support for family caregivers. Ceresti Health is a nationwide GUIDE Participant.
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Kootenai Accountable Care Partners with Ceresti Health on Dementia Care
On the heels of an announcement by CMS that millions of people now have access to dementia caregiver education, training and support, Kootenai Accountable Care (KAC) and Ceresti Health are partnering to improve patient care, support physicians, and reduce avoidable hospitalizations associated with dementia. The Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, accountable care organization learned about Ceresti through its patients, who came to doctors' appointments gushing about Ceresti's tech-enabled dementia-care program.
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Why Speed Matters in Dementia Care Partnerships
When caregivers ask for help, timing matters. Dementia doesn’t pause, and delayed support increases stress, uncertainty and avoidable crises. Home care agencies, Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) and other GUIDE participants need scalable, agile models that reach families quickly, regardless of geography or volume. Immediate guidance and coaching build caregiver confidence, improve outcomes and reduce strain on care teams. Because in dementia care, timeliness matters.
GUIDE Is Here.
CMS’s GUIDE Model makes dementia a Medicare priority, forcing ACO leaders to manage accountability and impacts from external care models they don’t control— waiting is not neutral.
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Why Dementia Is So Hard for Primary Care—and What Value-Based Leaders Can Do About It
In value-based care, we ask primary care providers to be quarterbacks—responsible for clinical outcomes, cost containment and patient experience. But when it comes to dementia, an important condition that by its nature can be a challenge to diagnose and difficult to manage, we’ve handed them the ball without a playbook.
This article explores the challenges primary care organizations face in managing dementia patients—and some of the solutions available for improving outcomes, lowering costs and reducing risk.
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The Indispensable Partnership: Physicians and Unpaid Family Caregivers in Dementia Care
In its unflinching report “America’s Unseen Workforce: The State of Family Caregiving,” Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health sheds a stark light on the state of caregiving for people with dementia. Physicians are in a unique position to chart a new course for their patients -- and the loved ones who care for them.
Ceresti can help. To help your dementia patients and their family caregivers access the benefits of the GUIDE model, refer them to Ceresti Health: guide.ceresti.com
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Ceresti Partners with Neura Health to Deliver Timely Dementia Assessments Under CMS GUIDE Model
Dementia care solutions leader Ceresti Health today announced a strategic partnership with Neura Health, a nationwide virtual neurology services provider. This collaboration will expand the service areas for Ceresti’s remotely delivered dementia care program under the CMS Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model and will provide faster, more efficient services to people with dementia and their family caregivers.