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#MedicareAdvantage --- you asked, we deliver Medicare 102!
Part C - let’s make it move from confusion to clarity!

#PolicyCapsule @PolicyCapsule
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2/ #MedicareAdvantage is an alternative to the mother program #Medicare.
This allows Medicare to pay private health plans for providing services/managing Medicare beneficiaries

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3/ Benefits under #MedicareAdvantage are similar and sometime more encompassing: dental, vision, wellness, hearing, and Part D prescription
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4/ Similar to mother #Medicare, #MedicareAdvantage covers very same people; but new enrollees <65 years are less likely to sign up and are showing signs of dropping out at alarming rates
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5/ #MedicareAdvantage enrollment will likely increase covering almost 42% of Medicare population by 2028. But large swaths of variation - regional and age based - are causing concern for policy experts
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6/ 30% of Medicare spend in 2017 = payments for enrollees in #MedicareAdvantage plans, that is approx $200 billion!
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7/ While #MedicareAdvantage offers many benefits for enrollees, limited data, alarming variation, and restrictive practices (PAs, Referrals) are cause for pause and further study.
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8/ Reading #MedicareAdvantage #PolicyCapsule:

👉CMS: cms.gov/Medicare/Medic…
👉Medicare: medicare.gov/sign-up-change…
👉@KFF: kff.org/medicare/repor…
👉@KFF: kff.org/medicare/issue…
👉@KFF: kff.org/medicare/issue…
👉@NEJM: nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NE…
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Ankita Sagar, MD, FACP
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#Medicare ... such a tiny name for such a BIG program.
The mammoth size program definitely deserves a 101, 102, 103 and many more.
Today, let’s start with #Medicare101

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2/ #Medicare is federally sponsored insurance - has 4 parts : A, B, C, D
Inpatient + Prescription Drug payments account for the largest benefit payments for Medicare!

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3/ #Medicare covers about 60 million persons - Age 65 or older and those under age 65 with certain disabilities, ESRD, or ALS
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