MedPage Today October 11, 2024
— No preferential treatment should be given for enrolling people in Medicare Advantage, they argue
Payments to brokers who enroll people in Medicare plans should be reformed so that no preferential treatment is given for enrollment in Medicare Advantage (MA) instead of fee-for-service Medicare, several commissioners said at a meeting of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC).
As the system works now, “there’s no financial incentive to keep people in traditional Medicare,” Commissioner Stacie Dusetzina, PhD, of Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville, Tennessee, said at Thursday’s meeting. “You shouldn’t be financially harmed as a broker for helping [enrollees] pick the things that work best for them.”
Commissioner Lynn Barr, MPH, of the Barr-Campbell Family Foundation in Lahaina, Hawaii,...
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