{"id":16427,"date":"2020-07-10T09:29:51","date_gmt":"2020-07-10T13:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=16427"},"modified":"2020-07-10T09:29:51","modified_gmt":"2020-07-10T13:29:51","slug":"medicare-advantage-beneficiaries-saved-1598-over-traditional-medicare-beneficiaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=16427","title":{"rendered":"Medicare Advantage beneficiaries saved $1,598 over traditional Medicare beneficiaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In their State of Medicare Advantage report, the Better Medicare Alliance stated the number of Medicare Advantage plans is increasing, typically being of higher quality and yielding more cost-savings as opposed to fee-for-service Medicare.\u00a0 It found on the average there are 39 plans available per county and this increased volume means that nearly all Medicare beneficiaries can access at least one Medicare Advantage plan in 2020. As a result of this access, Medicare Advantage beneficiaries saved $1,598 over traditional Medicare beneficiaries in out-of-pocket healthcare spending and also saved significantly on prescription drugs. \u00a0Read article <a href=\"https:\/\/healthpayerintelligence.com\/news\/medicare-advantage-plans-increase-improve-quality-over-ffs-plans\">here\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/iStock_000025513411Small-700x559-medicare.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9838\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/iStock_000025513411Small-700x559-medicare-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/iStock_000025513411Small-700x559-medicare-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/iStock_000025513411Small-700x559-medicare.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice:<\/strong> 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>In their State of Medicare Advantage report, the Better Medicare Alliance stated the number of Medicare Advantage plans is increasing,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,21,6,9,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-general","category-health-care-finance","category-medicare-general","category-medicare-advantage","category-part-dprescription-drugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16427","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=16427"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16428,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16427\/revisions\/16428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}