Your Watercooler of Wisdom—for Medicare Advantage!
AHIP is an advocacy group for insurers plain and simple. When you want to know what the industry’s take is on a Medicare Advantage issue that’s who you ask.
This reflects a lack of respect for their beneficiaries—the MAO which fixes, really fixes this problem will have a huge leg up in the marketplace.
In the meantime, you need an insurance home to serve as your translator.
More here.
A very nice analysis of the scope of flex benefits extracted from CMS’s own database.
Health systems are turning to telehealth to leverage scarce physician resources
Someone should write a book about this.
Look for this trend to increase nationally—and consolidation among MAOs to increase nationally along with it.
TOMISM
You can always make a quick buck from ripping data through a Medicare Advantage plan. Sustainable value comes from nurturing the patient’s relationship with their prime.