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Capitol Hill Watch - Rep. Stark To Introduce Bill To Reduce Reimbursements for Medicare Advantage Plans
House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Health Chair Pete Stark (D-Calif.) on Wednesday announced that by July he plans to introduce legislation to reduce Medicare reimbursements for private Medicare Advantage plans to help fund other health care proposals, CQ HealthBeat reports. The Medicare Payment Advisory C
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2007-04-26

Medicare - Rep. Stark Proposes Reduction in Payments to Medicare Advantage Plans To Cover Cost of Other Proposals
Democrats this year likely will seek to reduce payments to private Medicare Advantage plans to cover the cost of other health care proposals, such as revisions to the Medicare physician reimbursement system, House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee Chair Pete Stark (D-Calif.) told a group of health care poli
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2007-01-24

Capitol Hill Watch - House Panel Examines Medicare Advantage Plan Payments, Considers Cuts
The House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee on Wednesday held a hearing to examine whether the government overpays Medicare Advantage plans, which are operated by private insurers, the Washington Times reports. Democrats have suggested that extra government payments to MA plans increase premiums and costs f
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2007-03-22

Opinion - Editorial Supports Bill To Reduce Medicare Advantage Plan Payments
The 'extra spending' on reimbursements to private Medicare Advantage plans compared with payments to traditional Medicare for equivalent benefits -- 'more than $50 billion over the next five years -- makes an already financially unstable Medicare program more expensive,' a Washington Post editorial states, a
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2007-08-21

Medicare - Florida Health News Examines Medicare Advantage Plan Payments in Florida
Florida Health News on Friday examined federal payment disparities among Medicare Advantage plans in Florida. According to a Florida Health News analysis, payments to MA plans in Miami-Dade County on average are 38% higher than payments in 24 other Florida counties and 50% higher than in a dozen other counti
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2008-03-25

Medicare - Insurers Use Aggressive Tactics To Push Enrollment in Higher-Cost Medicare Advantage Plans, Officials, Consumer Advocates Say
Some health insurers 'have used improper hard-sell tactics' to enroll Medicare beneficiaries in private fee-for-service plans, the 'fastest-growing type' of Medicare Advantage plan, according to a number of state and federal officials and consumer advocates, the New York Times reports. Private fee-for-servic
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2007-05-07

Capitol Hill Watch - Rep. Stark Urges CMS To Block New Medicare Advantage Sales Commissions Rules, Saying They Will Promote 'Churning'
House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Health Chair Pete Stark (D-Calif.) on Thursday in a letter to CMS acting administrator Kerry Weems called for a limit on new sales commissions in an attempt to dissuade sales agents from pressuring Medicare beneficiaries to frequently switch Medicare Advantage plans, CQ H
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2008-10-24

Opinion - New York Times Editorial Says Congress Should Eliminate 'Unjustified Subsidies' for Private Medicare Advantage Plans
'Congress clearly has more work to do to remove unjustified subsidies that prop up many of the most inefficient' private Medicare Advantage plans, according to a New York Times editorial. The editorial is in response to recent analyses published in Health Affairs that found the plans increased costs of the p
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2008-12-01

Medicare - CMS Announces Preliminary Estimate of 0.5% Increase in Medicare Advantage Growth Rate for 2010
CMS on Friday announced a preliminary estimate of a 0.5% increase in the National Per Capita Medicare Advantage Growth Percentage for 2010, a move that prompted America's Health Insurance Plans on Monday to warn that MA plans could experience a decrease in reimbursements as a result, CQ HealthBeat reports. T
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2009-02-24

Medicare - President-Elect Obama, Sen. Reid Focus on Scaling Back Medicare Advantage Program
Democrats, led by President-elect Barack Obama and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (Nev.), have signaled their intent to 'scale back' the Medicare Advantage program, The Hill reports. Obama on Sunday on ABC News' 'This Week' identified MA as an example of 'programs that don't work,' adding that the program
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2009-01-15