tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2005 Issue 11

Health Plans:CMS Happy With Local Medicare Plan Applications

But are regional plan numbers a bad omen for rural patients?The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has received applications from health plans seeking to offer more than 141 new local Medicare Advantage (MA) plans in 2005, the agency announced Feb. 18."Beginning later this year ... there will likely be more than 300 MA plans available for beneficiaries across the nation, the largest number of plans since 1999," CMS said in a statement. The trade association America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) said that, if all the applications are approved, patients in 39 states will have access to...

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