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Chief Healthcare Executive December 21, 2024
AHA proposes how Congress could truly reduce national health expenditures
American Hospital Association January 31, 2024
In a statement submitted to the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health for a hearing Jan. 31 on national health expenditures, AHA urged the subcommittee to prevent certain Medicare Advantage plans from engaging in tactics that restrict and delay access to care while adding burden and cost to the health care system.
“While MA plans were designed to help increase efficiency in the Medicare program, recently released data from the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) found that MA plans will be responsible for $88 billion in excess federal spending this year, due in part to inappropriate upcoding practices, whereby plans report enrollees as having more health conditions and being sicker than they are to receive higher reimbursements,” the statement...
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