Healthcare DIVE February 2, 2018
Dive Brief:
- Baseline Medicare Advantage payment rates are proposed to increase an average of 1.84% for 2019, CMS announced Thursday. After taking into account the underlying coding trend’s impact on risk scores, CMS says payments will increase on average by 3.1% in 2019.
- CMS is also proposing opioid prescribing limits starting in 2019 for Part D plans to help stem the opioid crisis.
- CMS Administrator Seema Verma says the proposed changes will provide “new flexibilities for Medicare Advantage plans to offer new health-related benefits.” CMS says one-third of Medicare beneficiaries are enrolled in an MA plan.
Dive Insight:
Medicare Advantage remains popular; the program grew almost 8% in 2017 and is expected to grow 9% to 20.4 million...
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