Medicare Advantage Enrollment Overtakes Traditional Medicare: Is There Concern with the Rising Instability of Payment Benchmarks?

• February 16, 2024

• Tyler Marshall , Berkeley Research Group
• Nikki Doherty , BRG

Medicare beneficiaries currently have an option for how they would like to receive their Medicare benefits. They can either decide to receive benefits administered by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) through the traditional Medicare program (Fee-for-Service or FFS) or by a private insurance company as a member of a health plan (e.g., HMO or PPO) that contracts with Medicare.  This alternative private program is known as Medicare Advantage (MA).

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• Payers, Plans, and Managed Care Practice Group
• Government Reimbursement