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How would reducing Medicare Advantage (MA) plan benchmarks impact
consumers?
A new study released ahead of print
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earlier this week seeks to answer this question amidst growing concerns
that MA plans are overpaid, prompting some proposals to make cuts to the
program.
Opponents of such cuts have argued that they would reduce the
availability of benefits overall, especially to disadvantaged
populations.
Michael Chernew and coauthors use variation in benchmark changes across
markets from 2012 to 2019 to assess the relationship between Medicare
Advantage benchmarks, plan generosity, and benefits.
According to the authors' analysis, a decrease of $1,000 per year in
benchmarks would result in a $60 per year premium increase per
beneficiary, small copay increases, and increases of about $27 in annual
deductibles
Further, Chernew and coauthors estimate that higher benchmarks also
would lead to reductions in cost sharing.
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Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Mariana Socal from
the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health on a recently
published paper examining sources of production and levels of
competition in the global supply chain for generic drugs sold in the
United States.
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