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Commonwealth Fund
Extra payments to Medicare Advantage plans to total $8.5 billion in 2008
September 27th, 2008
Private Medicare Advantage (MA) plans will be paid an average 12.4 percent more per enrollee in 2008 compared to what the same enrollee would have cost in the traditional Medicare fee-for-service program, according to a new report from The Commonwealth Fund. Even if the payment reductions to MA plans mandated by the Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008 (MIPPA) – scheduled to take effect beginning in 2010 – had been fully in place in 2008, MA plans still would have been paid 10.6 percent more than expected fee-for-service costs. In the report, Brian Biles, professor of health policy at George Washington University, and colleagues estimate that...
Source: Law & Health Weekly (2008-09-27)
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