Health Affairs8d
Improving Medicare Advantage By Accounting For Large Differences In Upcoding Across Plans
Shifting from reducing MA capitation by an across-the-board coding intensity adjustment factor to Medicare Advantage ...
Forbes3mon
Trick Or Treat: The Fuss Over Medicare Advantage Star Ratings
In the midst of open enrollment, there’s a lot of consumer (and investor) focus on Medicare Advantage ... 2024-2025 star rating and impacts payments to plans (and associated benefits to ...
Fierce Healthcare18d
CMS withdraws notice of appeal over UnitedHealthcare's MA star ratings lawsuit
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has changed course on plans to appeal a court ruling that determined it must recalculate UnitedHealthcare's Medicare Advantage star ratings. The agency ...
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How to use Medicare star ratings wisely during open enrollment
During this Medicare open-enrollment season, people selecting options for 2025 can often choose among a dizzying number of Part D drug plans and private insurers’ Medicare Advantage plans.
McKnight's Long-Term Care News12d
MA plans’ use of prior authorizations climbs again, despite heightened pressure to limit tactic
Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) accused the plans of using technology to help deny Americans “necessary care in order to fatten and pad their bottom lines.” Medicare beneficiaries in MA plans ...
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The pros and cons of Medicare Advantage plans
Increasingly, Medicare beneficiaries are gravitating towards Medicare Advantage ... Medicare Plan Finder, which lets you compare plan coverage and costs and see Medicare’s star rating system ...
Kiplinger4mon
Medicare or Medicare Advantage: Which Is Right for You?
This is the time when Medicare beneficiaries can decide to enroll in a Medicare Advantage plan ... your evaluation of a health plan, examine the plan’s Star Rating, a government-provided ...
McKnight's Long-Term Care News28d
Study: Medicare Advantage users largely in the dark about dental, vision, hearing benefits
a cost that is partially intended to fund supplemental benefit use. “Medicare Advantage plans receive more money per beneficiary than traditional Medicare plans, but our findings add to the ...
Modern Healthcare1mon
CMS proposes 4.33% Medicare Advantage pay bump
The agency also announced plans to consider the effects of natural disasters on Medicare Advantage and Part D star ratings ... together ensure that beneficiaries can access the benefits and ...