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The Director of HHS speaks about new Medicare Advantage Part D changes
Poorly written but complete. My newsletter has a much better summary—with fantastic additional insights. Here are some samples. I archive them three months after sending them out to give my subscribers the edge they deserve
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How to choose the perfect Medicare Advantage plan
Find a reliable insurance home—and stick with them.
Amazing none of these sorts of reports don’t just say that.
Actually, when you see who their sponsors are, maybe it’s not so amazing after all.
Gary Schwitzer of Health News Reviews shares his journey through enrolling in Medicare.
If a person with his background has trouble, what hope do the rest of us have?
You can start by reading these and visiting every Wednesday.
Medicare Advantage Beneficiaries eagerly await new home-care benefits
They’re going to wait for a long time because less than 3% of the plans are offering it in 2019. Medicare Advantage Organizations have done the math and decided the small extra payment CMS is including to fund the benefit is better spent on marketing—not a bad decision—especially if they internalize a home-care benefit on their own.
Look for the benefit to either be mandated or dropped.
4 in 10 Medicare beneficiaries will be covered by Medicare Advantage in 2028
The numbers and timeline are off and you’ll be behind the curve if you use them—if you look at a maturing market, say California, you’ll see that the number will be more than 45%, and the timeline will be 2023
Presented as an opportunity to learn how to critically analyze such journalism.
(spoiler—just assume it always wrong, and Dr. Davis is usually right—and first).
Tomism
Your clinicians don’t like micromanaged compensation formulae any more than you.
“Here’s a base salary and here’s your budget to care for your patients—you spend less, you keep the difference, you spend more, there’s no difference to keep.”
Mentor them on how to run it, check up on them to keep them honest.
Perform at a high level.
it’s as simple as that.