Paying Medicare Advantage plans by competitive bidding: how much competition is there?

Private health plans that enroll Medicare beneficiaries--known as Medicare Advantage (MA) plans--are being paid $11 billion more in 2009 than it would cost to cover these beneficiaries in regular fee-for-service Medicare. To generate Medicare savings for offsetting the costs of health reform, the Ob...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Issue brief (Commonwealth Fund) 2009-08, Vol.65, p.1-12
Hauptverfasser:	Biles, Brian, Pozen, Jonah, Guterman, Stuart
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Competitive Bidding - economics Economic Competition - economics Health Care Reform - economics Health technology assessment Humans Managed Care Programs - economics Medicare - economics Prospective Payment System - economics United States
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