{"id":26309,"date":"2026-07-24T09:57:33","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T13:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=26309"},"modified":"2026-07-24T09:57:34","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T13:57:34","slug":"flawed-medicare-advantage-payment-methodologies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=26309","title":{"rendered":"Flawed Medicare Advantage payment methodologies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Medicare Advantage Quality Bonus Program (QBP) is a payment incentive for Medicare Advantage (MA) plans that score 4 stars or higher on CMS\u2019s five\u2011star quality rating system. However, the intention of paying more for higher quality is reasonable; it is unclear whether the QBP is accomplishing that goal. Julie Carter, writing for the Medicare Rights Center, reports on how Medicare Advantage organizations reap ever larger bonuses. Read Ms. Carter\u2019s article <a title=\"here\u2026\" href=\"https:\/\/www.medicarerights.org\/uncategorized\/2026\/07\/23\/medicare-advantage-organizations-reap-ever-larger-bonuses\">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>The Medicare Advantage Quality Bonus Program (QBP) is a payment incentive for Medicare Advantage (MA) plans that score 4 stars<\/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],"class_list":["post-26309","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"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26309","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=26309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26310,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26309\/revisions\/26310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}