People who choose Medicare Advantage (MA) face additional hurdles during the initial enrollment and annual plan selection processes. The MA plan choice landscape is cluttered, complicated, and confusing. Other MA features, like prior authorization, narrow provider networks, and predatory plan marketing, can worsen decision-making and access problems. It is also expensive. MA costs more, both overall and per enrollee, than Original Medicare. This drives up spending for the program, beneficiaries, and taxpayers; though little is known about how plans are using these dollars, or about overall plan quality. As MA enrollment grows, addressing its financing flaws and programmatic pitfalls becomes ever-more important. We support comprehensive reforms to ensure all beneficiaries can rely on their earned Medicare coverage.
Medicare Rights strongly supports the proposals in the Advance Notice (AN) that would improve Medicare Advantage (MA) payment accuracy. Modest but important, these changes would begin to correct the decades-long problem of MA overpayments.
The Medicare Rights Center is providing template comments to help individuals and organizations respond to the 2024 Advance Notice. We
The proliferation of Medicare Advantage (MA) plans and the variation across plans makes enrollment decisions based on a beneficiary’s individual circumstances overly complex, resulting in sub-optimal choices or unwillingness to shop for coverage.
Last week, the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) released an analysis of two announcements by the Biden-Harris Administration around Medicare Advantage
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recommends policy changes to Medicare Advantage (MA) and Part D plans each
The Medicare Rights Center comments on the Medicare Program; Contract Year 2024 Policy and Technical Changes proposed rule.
This week, the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) released an analysis of Medicare Advantage (MA) data showing that providers submitted over
This week, the Governmental Accountability Office (GAO), a watchdog agency that works for Congress, released a report on Medicare Advantage
The Commonwealth Fund recently released an explainer delving into the role Medicare Advantage (MA) and Part D marketing has on
Medicare Rights strongly supports the proposals in the Advance Notice (AN) that would improve Medicare Advantage (MA) payment accuracy. Modest but important, these changes would begin to correct the decades-long problem of MA overpayments.
The Medicare Rights Center is providing template comments to help individuals and organizations respond to the 2024 Advance Notice. We
The proliferation of Medicare Advantage (MA) plans and the variation across plans makes enrollment decisions based on a beneficiary’s individual circumstances overly complex, resulting in sub-optimal choices or unwillingness to shop for coverage.
Last week, the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) released an analysis of two announcements by the Biden-Harris Administration around Medicare Advantage
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recommends policy changes to Medicare Advantage (MA) and Part D plans each
The Medicare Rights Center comments on the Medicare Program; Contract Year 2024 Policy and Technical Changes proposed rule.
This week, the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) released an analysis of Medicare Advantage (MA) data showing that providers submitted over
This week, the Governmental Accountability Office (GAO), a watchdog agency that works for Congress, released a report on Medicare Advantage
The Commonwealth Fund recently released an explainer delving into the role Medicare Advantage (MA) and Part D marketing has on
