{"id":9066,"date":"2017-12-26T10:24:23","date_gmt":"2017-12-26T15:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=9066"},"modified":"2017-12-26T10:24:23","modified_gmt":"2017-12-26T15:24:23","slug":"medicare-advantage-benchmarks-creating-inefficiencies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=9066","title":{"rendered":"Medicare Advantage benchmarks creating inefficiencies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Medicare Advantage (MA) benchmark bidding system, which was intended to reduce plan inefficiencies, has allowed health plans to benefit financially while remaining cost inefficient according to new research from the Commonwealth Fund. <a href=\"https:\/\/healthpayerintelligence.com\/news\/medicare-advantage-cost-benchmarks-create-plan-inefficiencies\">Read article here\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/dreamstime_s_56786036-\u00a9-Alexmillos-Dreamstime_com_-700x452.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8431\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/dreamstime_s_56786036-\u00a9-Alexmillos-Dreamstime_com_-700x452-300x194.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/dreamstime_s_56786036-\u00a9-Alexmillos-Dreamstime_com_-700x452-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/dreamstime_s_56786036-\u00a9-Alexmillos-Dreamstime_com_-700x452.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/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; 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.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Medicare Advantage (MA) benchmark bidding system, which was intended to reduce plan inefficiencies, has allowed health plans to benefit<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-finance","category-medicare-advantage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9066","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=9066"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9067,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9066\/revisions\/9067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}