MedPage Today March 7, 2025
— Commissioners decried the enrollment system as too complex for seniors, noting it has to change
A report released Thursday showing how health plan agents receive hefty financial incentives to steer beneficiariesopens in a new tab or window into Medicare Advantage (MA) plans — rather than traditional Medicare and Medigap — prompted several members of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) to call for dramatic changes in the enrollment system.
“I think we have a system here … that is inherently flawed,” said Commissioner R. Tamara Konetzka, PhD, a public health sciences professor at the University of Chicago, during a MedPAC public meeting. “It will never be a good system for beneficiaries [even if] we can regulate it to death...
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