In the last few years, growth in healthcare spending has begun to moderate, fueled in part by Medicare’s shift toward new forms of payment based on outcomes and quality. But short-sighted regulations proposed last week would impose dramatic cuts to Medicare Advantage (MA) that may stifle this exciting transformation.
Many of the new cost-containment strategies now underway in original Medicare were pioneered in Medicare Advantage. The models for the Affordable Care Act (ACA)’s Accountable Care Organizations were integrated delivery systems like Intermountain, Kaiser Permanente and Geisinger, which all operated MA plans.
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