Medicare Advantage : the alternate Medicare program
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Medicare Advantage : the alternate Medicare program
(Public health in the 21st century series)
Nova Science, c2010
- alk.
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
Medicare Advantage (MA) is an alternative way for Medicare beneficiaries to receive covered benefits. Under MA, private health plans are paid a per-person amount to provide all Medicare-covered benefits (except hospice) to beneficiaries who enrol in their plan. As of January 2009, all Medicare beneficiaries had access to an MA plan and 23% of beneficiaries enrolled in one. In general, Medicare Advantage plans offer additional benefits or require smaller co-payments or deductibles than original Medicare. Sometimes beneficiaries pay for these additional benefits through a higher monthly premium, but sometimes they are financed through plan savings. This book highlights the many advantages of the alternative Medicare program. This book consists of public documents which have been located, gathered, combined, reformatted, and enhanced with a subject index, selectively edited and bound to provide easy access.
Table of Contents
- Preface
- Medicare Advantage
- Medicare Advantage: Characteristics, Financial Risks, & Dis-enrollment Rates of Beneficiaries in Private Fee-for-Service Plans
- Medicare Advantage: Increased Spending Relative to Medicare Fee-for-Service May Not Always Reduce Beneficiary Out-of-Pocket Costs
- Medicare Advantage Organizations: Actual Expenses & Profits Compared to Projections for 2006
- Medicare Advantage: Private Health Plans in Medicare
- Index.
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