PERSPECTIVES ON OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES FOR MEDICARE ADVANTAGE PLANS TO ADDRESS SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH VIA THE CHRONIC CARE ACT

Perspectives on Opportunities and Challenges for Medicare Advantage Plans to Address Social Determinants of Health via the CHRONIC Care Act

There is increasing recognition of the role of social determinants of health (SDOH) in the ability of Medicare Advantage (MA) enrollees to obtain needed care.The 2018 CHRONIC Care Act established Special Supplemental Benefits for the Chronically Ill (SSBCI), which for Dishcloth the first time gives MA plans the flexibility to provide supplemental b

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Paleocene wind-dispersed fruits and seeds from Colombia and their implications for early Neotropical rainforests

Extant Neotropical rainforests are well known for their remarkable diversity of fruit and seed types.Biotic agents disperse most of these disseminules, whereas wind dispersal is less common.Although wind-dispersed fruits and seeds are greatly overshadowed in closed rainforests, many important families in the Neotropics (e.g., Bignoniaceae, Fabaceae

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