tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2003 Issue 12

Medicare+Choice: BUSH MEDICARE RX REFORM WOULD BENEFIT MCOS

Managed care is the base upon which President Bush wants to build a new Medicare. That’s the gist of his new proposal for reforming the program and providing the nation’s seniors with prescription drug coverage. The administration floated an unofficial proposal in January, voicing the possibility that seniors would need to join a Medicare+Choice organization to get prescription coverage. But when legislators from both parties condemned the idea of forcing seniors to abandon their beloved fee-for-service plan and join HMOs, the administration retreated for a few weeks to hash out a new plan. Bush announced his final...

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