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Large Health Insurers Plan to Make Cuts to Their Medicare Advantage Programs
Facing anticipated reductions in funding and regulatory changes under the health care reform law, several of the nation's largest health insurers have indicated plans to scale back their Medicare Advantage programs.
Facing anticipated reductions in funding and regulatory changes under the health care reform law, several of the nation's largest health insurers have indicated plans to scale back their Medicare Advantage programs.
Beginning in 2014, insurers' Medicare Advantage plans will be held to a minimum medical-loss ratio of 85% under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The reform law also calls for a $156 billion reduction in Medicare Advantage payments by 2022.
Those cuts, coupled with the 2% overall reduction in Medicare spending under the Budget Control Act of 2011 and potential further cuts resulting from ongoing budget negotiations in Congress, prompted senior executives at several leading health insurers to outline planned withdrawals from certain Medicare Advantage markets and narrowed Medicare benefit plan offerings during recent calls with securities analysts.
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NK Cell Therapy SNK01 Improves Cognitive Function in Alzheimer Disease for up to 11 Weeks
December 3rd 2023Among 10 patients evaluated, compared with their baseline at 1 week after receiving their final dose in the trial, 30% demonstrated clinical improvement on the Alzheimer’s disease composite score.
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Oncology Onward: A Conversation With Thyme Care CEO and Cofounder Robin Shah
October 2nd 2023Robin Shah, CEO of Thyme Care, which he founded in 2020 with Bobby Green, MD, president and chief medical officer, joins hosts Emeline Aviki, MD, MBA, and Stephen Schleicher, MD, MBA, to discuss his evolution as an entrepreneur in oncology care innovation and his goal of positively changing how patients experience the cancer system.
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Insufficient Data, Disparities Plague Lung Cancer Risk Factor Documentation
September 24th 2023On this episode of Managed Care Cast, we speak with the senior author of a study published in the September 2023 issue of The American Journal of Managed Care® on the importance of adequate and effective lung cancer risk factor documentation to determine a patient's eligibility for screening.
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