Why Medicare Advantage Plans Pay hospitals traditional Medicare prices.
Health Aff (Millwood)
; 34(8): 1289-95, 2015 Aug.
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ABSTRACT
The policy community generally has assumed Medicare Advantage (MA) plans negotiate hospital payment rates similar to those for commercial insurance products and well above those in traditional Medicare. After surveying senior hospital and health plan executives, we found, however, that MA plans nominally pay only 100-105 percent of traditional Medicare rates and, in real economic terms, possibly less. Respondents broadly identified three primary reasons for near-payment equivalence statutory and regulatory provisions that limit out-of-network payments to traditional Medicare rates, de facto budget constraints that MA plans face because of the need to compete with traditional Medicare and other MA plans, and a market equilibrium that permits relatively lower MA rates as long as commercial rates remain well above the traditional Medicare rates. We explored a number of policy implications not only for the MA program but also for the problem of high and variable hospital prices in commercial insurance markets.
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Assunto principal:
Garantia da Qualidade dos Cuidados de Saúde
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Medicare
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Economia Hospitalar
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Legislação Hospitalar
Tipo de estudo:
Health_economic_evaluation
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Prognostic_studies
País/Região como assunto:
America do norte
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En
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Health Aff (Millwood)
Ano de publicação:
2015
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Article