Managed Medicare plans are health insurance plans that private companies run. They are also known as Medicare Advantage or Part C plans. Managed Medicare plans are an alternative option to Original ...

A new analysis of more than 3 million claims for Medicare patients found that patients enrolled in a managed Medicare Advantage plan had better health outcomes than those senior enrolled in the ...

A new study shows that older Americans with health issues are now staying with their Medicare Advantage managed plans, rather than swapping them for traditional plans through a health insurer.

The overall quality of managed Medicare plans available in the Buffalo Niagara region improved slightly over the last year, according to ratings by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. The ...

Millions of older Americans who rely on private Medicare plans are about to lose a coverage option that had quietly become ...

WEDNESDAY, June 28, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- A new study shows that older Americans with health issues are now staying with their Medicare Advantage managed plans, rather than swapping them for ...

Half of Medicare beneficiaries, about 30 million people, are enrolled in Medicare managed care plans such as Medicare Advantage (MA). And increasingly those plans are offering modest, but important, ...

A recent Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) report also found that Medicare Advantage plans have limited networks of mental health practitioners. The report ...

Increases in Medicare Advantage market share over the past 10 years are largely caused by an increased preference for managed care among Medicare beneficiaries. Objectives: Private managed care plans ...

Recently, the Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”), Office of the Inspector General (“OIG”), HHS’s Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”), and Congress have focused attention on ...

With the tremendous growth of managed care over the last several years, the Medicare and Medicaid programs have had to transform how they fund health care for approximately 100 million enrollees.