All Articles In 'Medicare Advantage'
Medicare and Medicaid Fraud: Voluntary Self-Disclosure of Potential Fraud by Hospitals, Physicians, and Other Providers
Medicare and Medicaid program integrity efforts – coupled with complex coding and claiming procedures, ever-increasing program requirements, new payment methods, and the growing market share of taxpayer-funded programs – present significant compliance challenges for health plans, hospitals, [...]
Preventive Services: Understanding Preventive Health Services Covered under the Affordable Care Act
Under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), most health plans are now required to provide preventive services to their enrollees without any co-payments or other cost sharing. Over time, this is expected to significantly improve prevention and [...]
Medicare Payment Policy: Primers on Medicare Provider and Health Plan Reimbursement
The federal Medicare program has an array of complex payment policies for health care providers, health plans, and prescription drug plans. Fortunately, the outstanding staff at the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) offer a series of [...]
Medicare Data Book for 2010: MedPAC Data on Medicare Spending, Enrollment, Providers, Health Plans, Drug Plans, and More
MedPAC released its Medicare Data Book for 2010, with a wide range of useful information on Medicare spending, utilization, beneficiaries, providers, health plans, drug plans, access, and quality. The format is reader-friendly charts and tables with [...]
Impact of Health Reform on Medicare Advantage, Medicare Drug Plans, and Part D Drug Benefit
Medicare Advantage plans and Medicare Part D prescription drug plans face an extraordinary array of changes as a result of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act [...]
Wellness-Based Healthcare: Prevention, Intervention, and Innovation for Chronic Diseases
Creating a wellness-based healthcare system is the focus on a new series of articles published by American Health and Drug Benefits, a peer reviewed journal. They cover a wide spectrum of topics on how to build [...]
Medicare Payment Policy: MedPAC Recommendations to Congress for 2011
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) has released its Medicare payment recommendations to Congress for 2011. In addition to specific recommendations for payment updates for fee-for-service providers and Medicare Advantage plans, MedPAC’s report includes interesting information [...]
Medicare Reimbursement: Primers on Medicare Payment Methods for Providers, Health Plans, and Drug Plans
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) has updated its excellent series of reader-friendly primers on Medicare payment methodologies for hospitals, physicians, Medicare Advantage plans, prescription drug plans, and other health care providers. MedPAC is an advisory [...]
Pharmaceutical Research & Development in a Value-Based Healthcare System
At the last annual meeting of the Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy, several of us spoke on pharmaceutical research and development in the quickly emerging value-driven healthcare system. Topics focused on the impact of value-based benefit [...]
Medicare, Medicare Advantage, and Part D: Likely Policy Changes in 2009 and 2010
As the new Obama Administration and the 111th Congress focus on health care issues, here is a quick list of some of the Medicare policy changes Democrats will likely seek in 2009-2010: Likely Changes in Medicare [...]
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