{"id":25466,"date":"2026-01-21T10:13:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T15:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=25466"},"modified":"2026-01-21T10:13:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T15:13:18","slug":"ma-payments-are-76-billion-above-ffs-medicare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=25466","title":{"rendered":"MA payments are $76 billion above\u00a0FFS Medicare"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Medicare Advantage (MA) plans are funded primarily through fixed monthly payments from Medicare, based on the expected healthcare costs of enrolled beneficiaries. According to a recent report from the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC), in 2026, \u201cMedicare Advantage payments are $76 billion above what spending would have been in a fee-for-service Medicare.\u201d Susan Morse, reporting for Healthcare Finance News, explains how Medicare Advantage payments exceed those of original Medicare. Read Ms. Morse\u2019s article <a title=\"here\u2026\" href=\"https:\/\/www.healthcarefinancenews.com\/news\/medicare-advantage-payments-exceed-original-medicare\">here\u2026<\/a><\/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>Medicare Advantage (MA) plans are funded primarily through fixed monthly payments from Medicare, based on the expected healthcare costs of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7924,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,21,6,9],"tags":[80,238,61,65,1097,94],"class_list":["post-25466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cms","category-health-care-finance","category-medicare-general","category-medicare-advantage","tag-cms","tag-healthcare-finance","tag-medicare","tag-medicare-part-d","tag-medpac","tag-older-adults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25466","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=25466"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25467,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25466\/revisions\/25467"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}