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Duke May 31, 2018
KEY THEMES
• Medicare Advantage plans are already implementing a range of payment and benefit reforms, making over 40 percent of their payments through Alternative Payment Models, and are well positioned to lead new initiatives.
• However, there is less known about which Medicare Advantage payment reforms are working well and why. CMS has begun to remedy this by releasing some encounter data, and should also make...
