Telehealth Expansion Proposed in Bipartisan Senate Bill
Earlier this month, a bipartisan group, led by U.S. Senator Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii), introduced a bill in the Senate focused on promoting cost savings and quality care under the Medicare …
Medicare to cut payments to employer-sponsored Advantage plans
A new federal proposal would slash over payments made to Medicare Advantage plans sponsored by employers and unions years after an advisory board recommended the policy. The CMS proposed terminating …
Proposed Medicare loss is a gain for insurers
When is a loss a gain? It seems the answer is when the loss wasn’t nearly as bad as expected. That’s what major health insurers discovered when the Centers for …
HME News: CMS holds steady on Medicare Advantage
CMS has proposed a very small decrease in payments to Medicare Advantage plans for 2016, the agency announced Feb. 20. CMS says it wants to pay private insurers 0.95% less …
Medicare Advantage funding could be cut
Supporters of Medicare Advantage program are roundly criticizing President Obama’s fiscal 2016 budget plan to slash more than $36 billion in its funding over the coming decade. In a Feb. …
Medicare Advantage plan sponsors weigh reimbursement increase
The region’s two biggest Medicare Advantage plan sponsors say they are reviewing government reimbursement rates for next year before making any decision about member benefits. The Centers for Medicare and …
U.S. insurers still expect cuts in 2015 Medicare payments
U.S. health insurers said on Tuesday they still expected cuts in government reimbursements for privately managed Medicare health plans for the elderly next year even after the White House administration …
Are Fixed payments a barrier to quality of care in HMOs
Ever since the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003, the number of enrollees in Medicare Advantage, Medicare’s managed care program, has jumped from 5.3 million to 14.4 …