Roughly 32.8 million in the U.S. are enrolled in a Medicare Advantage plan, accounting for more than half (54%) of eligible Medicare beneficiaries.1As a state, California has the highest number of seniors with more than 5.9 million people ages 65 years-or-older, which accounts for more tha...
On the year’s Medicare Advantage investigations, the department added that it has continued to litigate “a number of other cases involving the Medicare Advantage program, including actions against UnitedHealth Group, Elevance Health (formerly Anthem), and the Kaiser Permanente consortium.” In...
To understand the amount of physican-industry alignment represented by industry provider payments, Medicare initialised the public release of Sunshine Act data in September 2013. The goal of this study was to 1) ascertain the industry-physician alignment by understa...
In addition, hospitals have changed their organization from a single provider to large mullti-institutional conglomerates. This is often done through the merging of several individual hospitals to a corporation, or the merging of the organizational structures to create a large system. Whether the ...