Industry Note:
Medicare Advantage Plans Scrimp On Care, GAO Says
Published on Fri Jun 09, 2017
Home care providers have long contended that Medicare Advantage plans aren’t approving enough home care for beneficiaries, and a new Government Accountability Office report may support that viewpoint. The GAO examined 126 MA contracts with higher disenrollment rates — above the median rate of 10.6 percent in 2014 — and found 35 contracts with “health-biased disenrollment,” the government watchdog says [...]