{"id":22564,"date":"2024-03-12T09:14:44","date_gmt":"2024-03-12T13:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=22564"},"modified":"2024-03-12T09:14:45","modified_gmt":"2024-03-12T13:14:45","slug":"why-primary-care-may-cost-less-in-medicare-advantage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=22564","title":{"rendered":"Why primary care may cost less in Medicare Advantage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(By Rylee Wilson for <em>Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Selective contracting with primary care physicians may be one factor behind lower per-patient expenses in Medicare Advantage, a study published in the March edition of Health Affairs found.  Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beckerspayer.com\/payer\/why-primary-care-may-cost-less-in-medicare-advantage.html\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.beckerspayer.com\/payer\/why-primary-care-may-cost-less-in-medicare-advantage.html\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"113\" class=\"wp-image-7838\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Medical-exam.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Medical-exam.jpg 700w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Medical-exam-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>&nbsp;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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Rylee Wilson for Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review) Selective contracting with primary care physicians may be one factor behind lower per-patient<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,21,6,9,1175],"tags":[80,238,61,62,94,101],"class_list":["post-22564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cms","category-health-care-finance","category-medicare-general","category-medicare-advantage","category-primary-care","tag-cms","tag-healthcare-finance","tag-medicare","tag-medicare-advantage","tag-older-adults","tag-primary-care"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22564","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=22564"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22565,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22564\/revisions\/22565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}