A highly rated Medicare Advantage plan operator in Michigan has used an unusual partnership with five local nonprofit skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) and a local ambulance company to achieve large reductions in cost of care for about 300 of its complex chronically ill MA members. And based on the results and the need, Grand Rapids, Mich.-based Priority Health wants to boost the number of MA members in the program to 4,000 in the next 12 months, Chief Medical Officer Jay LaBine, M.D., tells MAN.
