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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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How to Lower the Cost of Your Top Cost Drivers
Dementia represents a large, unmanaged, high-cost subpopulation in Medicare risk contracts—and a unique opportunity for value-based organizations to improve outcomes and reduce costs. For health plans and providers in value-based care arrangements, outsourcing dementia care management is a rare win-win: it drives better care, lowers total cost of care, and fills a major gap in current CCM programs.
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Ceresti Partners with ASAAR Medical to Drive Scalable Change in Dementia Care
Ceresti Health (Ceresti), a CMS GUIDE participant and leader in tech-enabled dementia care, has partnered with Florida-based REACH ACO ASAAR Medical (ASAAR) to transform the delivery of dementia care and drive scalable impact across accountable care organization (ACO) performance by activating family caregivers as essential members of the care team.
“ASAAR is committed to delivering smarter care models that empower physicians and families alike,” said Anjan Patel, CEO of ASAAR Medical. “Ceresti’s solution and its alignment with the GUIDE model perfectly support our vision - a dementia care approach that is proactive, tech-enabled and tailored to how care actually happens: at home, with caregivers.”
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Retired Truckdriver Finds Support on Her Dementia Caregiver Journey
Gladys and Dean took off for a four-week, 6,000-mile trip from Idaho to deliver an invaluable family Bible to Dean’s brother, John, in Buffalo. The retired truck drivers are no strangers to the road, but trips like these have gotten more challenging since Dean’s diagnosis of Alzheimer’s in 2019. Gladys said her community and the education and support she continuously receives from her team at Ceresti Health has been helping the couple through the unexpected twists and turns that come with dementia care.