{"id":23867,"date":"2025-01-13T08:38:20","date_gmt":"2025-01-13T13:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=23867"},"modified":"2025-01-13T08:38:22","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T13:38:22","slug":"cms-proposes-21b-payment-increase-for-medicare-advantage-in-2026-10-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=23867","title":{"rendered":"CMS proposes $21B payment increase for Medicare Advantage in 2026: 10 notes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(By Rylee Wilson for <em>Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CMS is proposing a more generous increase in payments to Medicare Advantage plans in 2026 than in previous years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The agency published its advance notice for payments to Medicare Advantage plans Jan. 10. CMS estimates payment rates will increase by 4.33%, or $21 billion, to MA plans in 2026.  Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beckerspayer.com\/policy-updates\/cms-proposes-21b-payment-increase-for-medicare-advantage-in-2026-10-notes.html\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.beckerspayer.com\/policy-updates\/cms-proposes-21b-payment-increase-for-medicare-advantage-in-2026-10-notes.html\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"75\" class=\"wp-image-10228\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/CMS-logo-2-e1524659904197.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>\u00a0The 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) CMS is proposing a more generous increase in payments to Medicare Advantage plans<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,21,9],"tags":[80,238,62,94],"class_list":["post-23867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cms","category-health-care-finance","category-medicare-advantage","tag-cms","tag-healthcare-finance","tag-medicare-advantage","tag-older-adults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23867","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=23867"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23868,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23867\/revisions\/23868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}