Here is the article from the Wall Street Journal. CMS will increase payments to hospitals by 0.2% which is far lower than the 2.7% increases in 2008 and 2009 and the 3.4% increase in 2007. The inflationary increase was supposed to be 2.1% (which was lower due to the recession), however, CMS reduced this by [...]
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Medicare Payments to Hospitals will Remain Relatively Flat in 2010
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Coventry Announces That it will Exit the Medicare Advantage Private Fee for Service Market at the End of 2009
Posted in 2009 MA Plans, Coventry, Medicare Advantage, News on May 6, 2009 | 22 Comments »
I talked about this last week (see blog post here), but yesterday, Coventry made it official that they are exiting the Private Fee for Service market at the end of 2009. This will affect over 300,000 members including both individual and group PFFS plans. A relatively small percentage of these members reside in a service [...]
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