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Enrollment Season Opens For Medicare Advantage And Drug Plans

By Susan Jaffe October 15, 2012 KFF Health News Original

Today, Medicare beneficiaries can begin choosing their drug and medical coverage for 2013, and most seniors are expected to stick with the same policies they have already, despite price changes and a rating system that shows some plans may be better than others. Seniors have been reluctant to change plans, even if there are cheaper […]

‘Doc Fix’ In ‘Fiscal Cliff’ Plan Cuts Medicare Hospital Payments

By Mary Agnes Carey January 1, 2013 KFF Health News Original

Updated at 9:30 a.m. on January 2. Legislation passed by Congress New Year’s Day to avert the dreaded “fiscal cliff” would stop a scheduled payment cut in Medicare physician payments. But hospitals, which have to bear a major part of financing for that “doc fix,” are not happy. The bill would require that, over the […]

Firm Relies On Medicare Experience As It Prepares To Open Federal Health Exchange Calls Centers

By Susan Jaffe June 21, 2013 KFF Health News Original

Vangent already handles more than 60,000 calls a day about Medicare but will soon add an expected 200,000 questions about the marketplaces set up by the health law.

Study Finds Premium Support Plan Could Raise Medicare Premiums In Many Parts of Country

By Jordan Rau October 15, 2012 KFF Health News Original

Seniors in both traditional Medicare and Medicare Advantage plans would be affected by the change, according to research that looks at how a voucher system would have worked in 2010.

The Stock Market, Medicare Advantage Rates And ‘Political Intelligence’

April 4, 2013 Morning Briefing

The Wall Street Journal reports that a tip about a recent a health policy decision drove insurers’ stock prices up and is now adding to questions about the “political intelligence” industry.

Rate Boost To Medicare Advantage Plans Powers Insurers’ Stock Surge

April 3, 2013 Morning Briefing

Health insurers led gains on Wall Street Tuesday after the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services reversed plans to make payment cuts to Medicare Advantage plans and instead offered a 3.3 percent increase.

Medicare Silver Bullets: What’s The Best Way To Control Costs?

December 12, 2012 KFF Health News Original

KHN asked a range of health policy experts the following question: If you could make only one change to Medicare to control costs, what would it be and why?

Medicare Trying To Nudge Seniors Out Of Plans With Low Ratings

By Susan Jaffe November 5, 2012 KFF Health News Original

Government is sending letters to a half million beneficiaries to alert them to their plans’ poor performance.

HMO-Like Plans May Be Poised To Make Comeback In Online Insurance Markets

By Julie Appleby January 22, 2013 KFF Health News Original

Insurers bet some consumers will choose cheaper plans that restrict their choice of doctors, despite worries about skimpy care and huge bills for out-of-network providers.

House Republicans Attack Obama Administration On Medicare Advantage

September 21, 2012 KFF Health News Original

In this edition of Health on the Hill, KHN’s Mary Agnes Carey interviews CQ Roll Call’s Emily Ethridge about today’s House Ways and Means health subcommittee hearing on the health law’s cuts to the private Medicare Advantage program.

Retiring Medicare Actuary Reflects On The Politics Of Health Care Spending And Why He Almost Quit

By Mary Agnes Carey January 28, 2013 KFF Health News Original

Richard Foster talks about the travails of trying to provide objective information to Congress and the White House.

At Health Law Anniversary, Even Bigger Changes Loom

April 2, 2013 KFF Health News Original

Health policy reporters weigh in on what’s changed since the Affordable Care Act became law three years ago for consumers, businesses, state governments, and what’s next for expanding Medicaid and launching exchanges.

First Edition: April 2, 2013

April 2, 2013 Morning Briefing

Today’s early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including news that the administration is delaying a health law provision aimed at small business and also opting to increase payments to Medicare Advantage programs.

HHS Touts Growth In Medicare Advantage Plans, Drop In Premiums

By Mary Agnes Carey September 19, 2012 KFF Health News Original

Just days away from a House hearing where Republicans are likely to charge that the 2010 health law’s cuts to Medicare Advantage plans will cause insurers to leave the program and seniors to pay more for coverage, the Obama administration said Wednesday that as a result of the law seniors now have more of these […]

Medicare Boosts Rather Than Cuts Payments To Advantage Plans

April 2, 2013 Morning Briefing

The insurance industry won a major lobbying victory Monday after the Obama administration backtracked on an earlier plan to cut Medicare Advantage payments to insurers by 2.2 percent in 2014 and instead decided to give them a 3.3 percent increase.

Study: Health Law Protected Young Adults From High Hospital Bills

By Sarah Varney May 29, 2013 KFF Health News Original

Researchers at the RAND Corporation set out to find some hard data on one aspect of the health law: Does having medical insurance protect young adults from the financial ruin that often comes with a major injury or illness? The quick answer: Yes, it does. Since September 2010, the Affordable Care Act has allowed young […]

Progressive Group Recommends $385 Billion In Health Cuts

By Phil Galewitz November 14, 2012 KFF Health News Original

Hospitals, drug companies, nursing homes and health plans would lose billions in Medicare funding over the next decade under a budget deficit cutting plan recommended by the Center for American Progress, a left-leaning think tank which has close ties to President Barack Obama and former President Bill Clinton. But officials at the center say their […]

Health Insurers Launch TV Campaign Opposing Medicare Advantage Cuts

March 7, 2013 Morning Briefing

The ads, including a 30-second TV spot that will run in a dozen states and Washington, D.C., are designed to increase pressure on Congress and the Obama administration to stop proposed 2.3 percent cuts to these private plans. In addition, some analysts predict earnings drops for some insurers if the cuts go forward.

Providers File The Bulk Of Medicare Appeals

By Susan Jaffe November 15, 2012 KFF Health News Original

Health care providers who appealed to Medicare judges won more often than patients did, according to a report by the inspector general at the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services. Hospitals, physicians, medical equipment suppliers and other providers also filed 85 percent of the cases decided by the administrative law judges in fiscal […]

Feds Make It Easier For States To Enroll Poor Under Health Law

By Phil Galewitz May 18, 2013 KFF Health News Original

States will have the option to use data from food stamps, other programs, to enroll adults in Medicaid. Officials say the changes are geared to states that are expanding the program next year, but they may also be adopted by others.

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