{"id":5955,"date":"2017-02-23T09:11:16","date_gmt":"2017-02-23T14:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=5955"},"modified":"2017-02-23T09:11:55","modified_gmt":"2017-02-23T14:11:55","slug":"cms-medicare-rate-changes-could-lead-to-benefit-cuts-in-2018-study-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=5955","title":{"rendered":"CMS Medicare Rate Changes could lead to Medicare Advantage benefit cuts in 2018, study says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>America\u2019s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), the national association representing nearly 1,300 member companies providing health insurance coverage to more than 200 million Americans, suggests that payment rates announced by\u00a0the Centers for Medicare &amp; Medicaid Services (CMS) earlier in February could threaten benefits available to the 18.5 million beneficiaries enrolled in Medicare Advantage plans. The predictikon is presented in an article by AHIP posted on\u00a0www.businesswire.com. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businesswire.com\/news\/home\/20170222005998\/en\/Report-Shows-Medicare-Advantage-Payments-Won%E2%80%99t-Pace\" target=\"_blank\">Read it here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice<\/strong>: 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; socialsecurityreport.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.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>America\u2019s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), the national association representing nearly 1,300 member companies providing health insurance coverage to more than<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medicare-advantage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5955","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5955"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5957,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5955\/revisions\/5957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}