Fierce Healthcare January 30, 2018
Leslie Small

The Medicare Advantage market has been “substantially more robust” than the ACA exchange market, despite the two markets’ myriad similarities.

The healthcare industry—and more specifically, the Affordable Care Act exchanges—would do well to learn from the success of the Medicare Advantage program.

That’s the conclusion of two recent publications, which come at a time when insurers are as bullish as they’ve ever been about the increasingly competitive MA market.

One of the publications, a recent Health Affairs Blog post, argues that the Medicare Advantage program’s core strengths of transparency, accountability and outcomes-based payment ought to serve template for reform and innovation in other commercial healthcare markets.

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Topics: ACA (Affordable Care Act), Medicare Advantage
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