{"id":25754,"date":"2026-03-25T08:14:26","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T12:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=25754"},"modified":"2026-03-25T08:17:36","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T12:17:36","slug":"the-medicare-advantage-paradox-who-benefits-most","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=25754","title":{"rendered":"The Medicare Advantage paradox: Who benefits most?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(By:\u00a0Alan Condon for Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Medicare Advantage now covers about 55% of eligible beneficiaries (about 35 million people) and costs the federal government a projected $76 billion more in 2026 than traditional fee-for-service Medicare would, according to a March report by the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission.  Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beckerspayer.com\/payer\/medicare-advantage\/the-medicare-advantage-paradox-who-benefits-most\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.beckerspayer.com\/payer\/medicare-advantage\/the-medicare-advantage-paradox-who-benefits-most\/\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><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.<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By:\u00a0Alan Condon for Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review) Medicare Advantage now covers about 55% of eligible beneficiaries (about 35 million people) and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8434,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,21,6,9,15],"tags":[80,385,238,61,62,65,94],"class_list":["post-25754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cms","category-health-care-finance","category-medicare-general","category-medicare-advantage","category-part-dprescription-drugs","tag-cms","tag-healthcare-costs","tag-healthcare-finance","tag-medicare","tag-medicare-advantage","tag-medicare-part-d","tag-older-adults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25754","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=25754"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25755,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25754\/revisions\/25755"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}