MedPAC’s March 2022 recommendations to Congress for Medicare Advantage payment policies have roused reactions from payers, specifically Better Medicare Alliance.
At the beginning of the report...
While the nation’s overall healthcare spending trend has been gradually increasing starting in 1970, the US experienced a particularly steep healthcare spending incline in 2020 of nearly 10...
National healthcare spending increased by 3.4 percent in 2021, while the Health Care Price Index (HCPI) maintained a year-over-year growth of around 2 percent, according to Altarum’s February...
National healthcare spending increased by nearly 10 percent in 2020 to $4.1 trillion, largely due to the spike in federal spending in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a Health Affairs...
Medicare Advantage plans offer members additional benefits and require less spending from the federal government compared to fee-for-service (FFS) Medicare, according to a report commissioned by Better...
Policymakers are looking to include dental, hearing, and vision benefits to Medicare as a part of the budget reconciliation bill, which could benefit many Medicare beneficiaries who go without this...
Better Medicare Alliance has commended Congress for including additional benefits in its proposed Budget Reconciliation plan for Medicare reform and is urging lawmakers to maintain the structure that...
Escalations in Medicare Advantage healthcare spending—along with higher traditional Medicare spending—could drive scarcity in the Medicare hospital insurance trust fund and could boost...
The National Association of Medicaid Directors (NAMD) is recommending that CMS approve Medicare coverage for Alzheimer’s disease therapies.
“The outcome of Medicare’s coverage...
CMS has started a national coverage determination analysis and will establish Medicare coverage policies for the new Alzheimer’s drug, aducanumab.
Aducanumab is a monoclonal antibody that...
While payers have been focusing justifiably on diminishing healthcare spending for chronic conditions, rare disease healthcare spending may exceed chronic disease healthcare spending, according to the...
In the first six months of 2020, fee-for-service Medicare utilization dropped across categories of services, races, and dual eligibility statuses, a recent Avalere study confirmed.
Avalere researchers...
Medicare spending on diabetes is in part a result of whether or not the beneficiary has multiple chronic conditions, but there are other factors that strongly influence costs as well, researchers found...
Health literacy is key to improving member health outcomes, particularly among Medicare beneficiaries, a UnitedHealth Group research report emphasized.
“Health literacy represents the ability of...
Medicare Advantage, specifically the Medicare Advantage health maintenance organization (HMO) option, is projected to be the most popular choice once again during open enrollment, according to...
A new report warns of rising premiums and out-of-pocket expenses for beneficiaries resulting from healthcare spending to combat the COVID-19 pandemic.
Covered California, the state’s health...
While payers and Medicare Advantage proponents applauded elements of the Medicare Advantage rule that CMS proposed yesterday which will increase plans’ revenues by nearly one percent, many...
Health payer spending in 2018 saw a 13.2 percent increase in net insurance costs, driven largely driven by the health insurance tax reinstatement, an analysis by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid...
The Medicare premium for premium will rise nearly seven percent in 2020, from $135.50 in 2019 to $144.60 next year, while the premium for Part A will rise almost five percent from $437.00 to $458.00 a...
The Health Care Cost Institute and Blue Health Intelligence, a data division of Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, have struck a multiyear data partnership that will see the latter’s medical...
