Health insurance plan provider Anthem announced Monday that it has teamed up with Walmart to launch a program next year to let its Medicare Advantage plan customers to buy over-the-counter medications from the retailer’s stores and website. The new collaboration, expected to launch in January ...
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Foremost has been Witty's defense of Medicare Advantage plans. On Dec. 30, through the company's website,Witty respondedto what he called "misleading" articlespublishedinThe Wall Street Journalaround Medicare Advantage plans. "In a series of misleading articles, the Wall Street Journal has waged...
Using nationally representative data from the 2006 to 2009 Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey and enrollment data from CMS, this study shows that higher Medicare Advantage plan penetrations are associated with lower readmission. Thus, I conclude that the expansion of Medicare Advantage plans has a ...
"CMS saving money for taxpayers isn't enough of a reason to face the wrath of very powerful health plans," Fuse Brown said. "That is extremely alarming." Invalid codes The fraud case against UnitedHealth Group, which runs the nation's largest Medicare Advantage plan, was filed in 2011 by...
Medicare Advantage (MA) plans receive billions of federal dollars for enrolling veterans who receive no Medicare services, according to a new study led by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. The study highlights the growing prevalence of high-veteran MA plans—defined as plans where 20%...
More than a quarter of Medicare beneficiaries are enrolled in Medicare Advantage, which was created in large part to improve the efficiency of health care delivery by promoting competition among private managed care plans. This paper explores the spillover effects of the Medicare Advantage program on...
The OLDW includes deidentified claims data for more than 125 million privately insured and Medicare Advantage (MA) enrollees in a large, private, US health plan from 1993 to the present and represents a diverse population in terms of age, race/ethnicity, and US geographic region. The health ...