Health Affairs February 11, 2025
Editor’s Note
This article is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront series, Supplemental Benefits in Medicare Advantage, featuring analysis and discussion from all stakeholder perspectives with the goal of informing the rapidly changing policy landscape on this topic. Additional articles will be published through mid-2025. Readers are encouraged to review the Call For Submissions for this series. We are grateful to The SCAN Foundation for its support of this work.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently announced that the Medicare Advantage Value-Based Insurance Design (MA-VBID) Model would be discontinued at the end of 2025 due to “substantial and unmitigable costs to the Medicare Trust Funds.” First implemented in 2017, MA-VBID provided MA plans with added flexibility...
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