Skilled Nursing News September 24, 2019
Alex Spanko

The Trump administration continued to cheer on the growth of Medicare Advantage plans Tuesday, with the nation’s top Medicare official touting the wider array of options available to beneficiaries next year.

American seniors will have 600 additional Medicare Advantage plan choices next year, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) administrator Seema Verma announced in a Twitter post as the government rolled out a long list of sunny managed Medicare statistics.

At the same time, the government projected that the average monthly plan premium will drop from $26.87 to $23 in 2020.

“More plan options at lower costs for our beneficiaries is a result of @CMSGov providing plans more flexibilities including removing limits requiring meaningful differences among...

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