The managed care partnership between Longevity Health Plan and Humana has entered a new caregiving collaboration with Touchstone Communities, which offers skilled nursing, memory care and rehabilitation services throughout the state of Texas.
Longevity and Touchstone have formed an independent provider association that will serve Humana members living in the state starting in 2024. The Longevity-Humana partnership will provide special needs health plan offerings for Medicare-eligible individuals in skilled nursing facilities and senior living communities.
The companies plan to launch their initiative in a handful of additional states in 2024 and to add others in 2025.
As part of the Touchstone pact, Longevity will hire and manage specially trained care teams including advanced practice clinicians such as nurse practitioners and physician assistants, in addition to medical directors, pharmacy experts, medical assistants and others.
Those teams will work on-site in Touchstone communities to care for Humana’s enrolled members.
Beneficiaries will receive services such as no copays for primary care and behavioral health visits, transportation to medical appointments, an over-the-counter benefit for health products, preventive and hearing aid coverage and other supplemental benefits.
Humana’s Medicare Advantage plans in Texas cover more than 440,000 people, according to Humana Texas Medicare President Bill White.
“Our partnership with Longevity enables us to expand our reach as this new Institutional special needs plan (I-SNP) helps meet the specific needs of high-acuity members who live in senior living settings,” he said. n
From the December 2023 Issue of McKnight's Long-Term Care News
