Managed Healthcare Executive September 9, 2021
Medicare funding shortfalls may trickle down to the Medicare Advantage plans and the Star Rating program bonuses, which have quadrupled in recent years.
In the coming years, the federal Medicare program will either need more funding or be forced to make serious spending cuts. The Medicare program is popular with voters and has support among politicians in both parties. But partly because of the expense of the response to the COVID-19 pandemic, policy makers may look to curtail Medicare spending and, more particularly, the Medicare Advantage (MA) program.
Medicare cuts may be needed because one of the two trust funds the government uses to pay for parts of the Medicare program is facing a severe shortfall, according to the Congressional...
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