{"id":13183,"date":"2019-05-07T07:45:22","date_gmt":"2019-05-07T11:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=13183"},"modified":"2019-05-07T07:45:22","modified_gmt":"2019-05-07T11:45:22","slug":"do-people-who-sign-up-for-medicare-advantage-plans-have-lower-medicare-spending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=13183","title":{"rendered":"Do People Who Sign Up for Medicare Advantage Plans Have Lower Medicare Spending?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Gretchen Jacobson, Tricia Neuman, and Anthony Damico for Kaiser Family Foundation)<\/p>\n<p>People on Medicare can choose coverage from either traditional Medicare or Medicare Advantage plans, typically trading off broad access to providers for potentially lower premiums and out-of-pocket costs. Beneficiaries who choose Medicare Advantage may differ from those in traditional Medicare in both measurable and unmeasurable ways, which may influence their use of services and spending. Yet, Medicare payments to Medicare Advantage plans per enrollee are based on average spending among beneficiaries in traditional Medicare.\u00a0 Continue reading study <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kff.org\/medicare\/issue-brief\/do-people-who-sign-up-for-medicare-advantage-plans-have-lower-medicare-spending\/\">findings here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Kaiser-Family-Foundation.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7499\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Kaiser-Family-Foundation.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"147\" height=\"138\" \/><\/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>(By Gretchen Jacobson, Tricia Neuman, and Anthony Damico for Kaiser Family Foundation) People on Medicare can choose coverage from either<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,6,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-finance","category-medicare-general","category-medicare-advantage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13183","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=13183"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13184,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13183\/revisions\/13184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}