What Happens When Medicare Overpays Medicare Advantage Plans?

The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) figures that Medicare Advantage plans cost 6 percent more than if beneficiaries had been in Fee-For-Service Medicare. New research concludes that beneficiaries only get a small fraction of these increased payments in benefits. According to Scott Duggan and colleagues: …[O]nly about one-fifth of the additional reimbursement is passed through […]



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