tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2007 Issue 16

MA PLANS: Medicare Advantage Leaves Traditional Medicare Recipients At A Disadvantage

Minorities contend that MA changes could cut quality of care.In an effort to find funding for expanding the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), legislators have identified inefficiencies in programs such as Medicare Advantage (MA), but minority advocates caution that proposed cost-saving changes to the MA program will only exacerbate current health-care disparities.In testimony before the Senate Finance Committee, Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) chairman Glenn Hackbarth acknowledged the problems that plague the MA program. "Unfortunately, MA has become a program in which there are few incentives for efficiency; although MA uses 'bidding' as the means of...

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