Author: Jessica Brown

The Medicare and Medicaid service centers recently announced that government payments to Medicare Advantage plans will increase by 5.06%, or $ 25 billion, from 2025 to 2026, which makes many defenders of the payers happy. This is a significant difference with respect to the increase of 2.23% proposes the Biden administration in January. The increase is mainly due to the increase in the effective growth rate, which is 9.04%, compared to the 5.93% estimate in the anticipated notice. “Every year for the announcement of rates, CMS updates the growth rates that are based on the most current estimation of per…

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