Medicare Advantage Payment Details

I did my semi-annual office clean up yesterday. That mostly involves going through piles of papers and tossing, filing, or doing something useful with them. Buried in one pile were several Commonwealth Fund papers by Brian Biles and colleagues. I refer to these whenever I need to refresh my memory about Medicare Advantage (MA) payment details. Just so I don’t lose track of them, below is a list of links (none are gated). Several summarize the history of MA payments. Each one describes the specifics of the payment rate methodology for the year indicated.

• The Continuing Cost of Privatization: Extra Payments to Medicare Advantage Plans Jump to $11.4 Billion in 2009.
• The Continuing Cost of Privatization: Extra Payments to Medicare Advantage Plans in 2008.
• The Cost of Privatization: Extra Payments to Medicare Advantage Plans — Updated and Revised (covers 2005).

Brian Biles has other papers on Medicare Advantage. See also my post on the future of MA payment rates.