Industry Note:
Expect To Serve More Managed Care Patients
Published on Tue Aug 23, 2011
Don't be surprised to see more Medicare Advantage managed care patients on your rolls in the coming year. MA plan premiums will be 4 percent lower in 2012 than in 2011, and plans project enrollment to increase by 10 percent, the Department for Health and Human Services says in a release. Open enrollment for the plans is starting earlier than usual, Oct. 15, HHS notes. The deadline to enroll is also earlier, Dec. 7 rather than Dec. 31. "Medicare open enrollment is coming early this year," CMS Administrator Donald Berwick points out in the release.