{"id":10424,"date":"2018-05-15T09:33:09","date_gmt":"2018-05-15T13:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=10424"},"modified":"2018-05-15T09:33:09","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T13:33:09","slug":"medicare-advantage-plans-need-more-competition-between-payers-and-government-organizations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=10424","title":{"rendered":"Medicare Advantage plans need more competition between payers and government organizations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a new report by the Brookings Institute, the Medicare Advantage (MA) bidding process requires more competition to increase the availability of high quality MA plans for beneficiaries and reduce federal spending. Medicare Advantage organizations (MAOs) often use the money earned from Medicare bids to generate higher enrollment numbers instead of passing savings on to existing members. To read further findings of the report, click on attached link. <a href=\"https:\/\/healthpayerintelligence.com\/news\/more-competition-may-benefit-medicare-advantage-bidding-process\">Read article here\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/research-data.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8434\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/research-data-300x211.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"211\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/research-data-300x211.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/research-data-130x90.jpg 130w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/research-data.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre>Notice: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a new report by the Brookings Institute, the Medicare Advantage (MA) bidding process requires more competition to increase<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,20,6,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-finance","category-health-care-redesign","category-medicare-general","category-medicare-advantage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10424"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10425,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10424\/revisions\/10425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}