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CARLSBAD, Calif. and SPRINGFIELD, Ore., April 21, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Ceresti Health, a national leader in tech-enabled dementia management, and PacificSource, an independent, not-for-profit community health plan serving the Northwest, today announce first year cost savings attributable to Ceresti’s dementia management program.
Medicare Advantage plans are facing one of the most challenging financial environments in years as flat payment updates, rising utilization and risk model changes compress margins across the industry. At the same time, dementia has emerged as one of the most complex and costly populations in Medicare, often driving preventable emergency department visits and hospitalizations when family caregivers lack the training or support to manage changes in condition.
New claims-based results from PacificSource and Ceresti Health demonstrate that activating family caregivers through a technology-enabled dementia management program can significantly reduce medical costs for this high-risk population, delivering statistically significant savings of $523 per member per month.
Ceresti enrolled 444 PacificSource Medicare Advantage and D-SNP members into its Dementia Management Program over the course of the first 12 months of the program. The medical costs of these members were tracked post-enrollment using claims data and compared to a comparison group that was propensity matched on key pre-enrollment metrics, including age, chronic condition burden, utilization and costs using a difference-in-differences methodology. Medical costs were reduced by 42% versus the matched comparison group, which translated into monthly medical cost savings of $523 (p=0.0165). The findings will be submitted for presentation and/or peer-reviewed publication.