MedPage Today January 25, 2024
— MedPAC chair discusses need to fix MA’s confusing limitations, upcoding, and rising costs
Michael Chernew, PhD, chairs the influential Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC), an independent 17-member panel appointed by the U.S. Comptroller General to advise Congress on Medicare policy.
MedPage Today recently interviewed Chernew by phone and email about growing concerns — throughout the country and among commission members — that private Medicare Advantage plans in some ways may be failing their mission to improve access to quality care and lower costs. These plans have become the dominant way beneficiaries receive health benefits.
Chernew, who is also a health policy professor and researcher at Harvard Medical School, said he was speaking from that role.
The interview has been...
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