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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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A Once-Lone Advocate Finds Needed Support Through Ceresti
Cracker Boynton has been advocating for her husband, Jeremy, since 2013, when the couple first began to notice Jeremy’s cognitive decline. It took five years before she could convince neurologists to perform a PET scan – which confirmed what they already knew: Jeremy has Alzheimer’s disease.
Cracker has been a tireless advocate for her husband through bouts of depression, decline and anxiety. Not until she discovered Ceresti Health did Cracker feel as though she had a real partner in care.
Breezing through months worth of caregiver education in just weeks, Cracker is an avid proponent for what Ceresti can do to improve the knowledge, skills and confidence of people like her who are caring for loved ones with dementia.
Rethinking Dementia Care: Why Caregivers Hold the Key
Ceresti Chief Medical Officer Dr. John Mach celebrates caregivers' crucial role in dementia management. Highlighting how the healthcare system often misses early changes in the condition of someone living with dementia, Dr. Mach underscores caregivers' role in preventing small medical issues from advancing into dangerous and costly hospitalizations. In this article, Dr. Mach emphasizes how the CMS GUIDE Model now supports caregivers, recognizing their importance in improving outcomes and reducing costs. Ceresti's technology-enabled service, which includes tablets and coaches, empowers caregivers to detect subtle changes, resulting in significant reductions in medical costs and hospitalizations. Read more of his take about how family caregivers are vital for transforming dementia care.
Answering the Call: Ceresti Showed Up for One Caregiver When She Needed Help Most
Caregiver Catherine Talkington found essential support through Ceresti Health after years of struggling alone with her husband's dementia. Ceresti's care coaches and personalized education provided her with the tools and validation she needed – all she had to do was pick up the phone.