The continuing cost of privatization: extra payments to Medicare Advantage plans jump to $11.4 billion in 2009

The Medicare Modernization Act of 2003 explicitly increased Medicare payments to private Medicare Advantage (MA) plans. As a result, MA plans have, for the past six years, been paid more for their enrollees than they would be expected to cost in traditional fee-for-service Medicare. Payments to MA p...

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