tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2005 Issue 28

MEDICARE ADVANTAGE: Plans May Struggle To Get Some MediGap Benes

Survey reveals seniors reticent to switch providers, even to save money.A new survey by the Center for Studying Health System Change shows that seniors are quite unwilling to sacrifice their choice of providers in return for saving on costs. The study comes on the heels of a March HSC study showing that working-age Americans are becoming much more willing to accept restricted choices if it saves them money.  Seniors are a different case, apparently.According to data collected in 2003, only 45 percent of seniors 65 and older were willing to trade provider choice to save money...

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