CMS Cuts 2010 Payments for Medicare Advantage Plans

OPEN MINDS Weekly News Wire Strategic Health Care News On April 6, 2009, the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced the Part C and D payment policies and methods CMS will use to calculate 2010 capitation payment rates for Medicare Advantage (MA) plans. The Medicare growth rate, a key factor used to determine 2010 payments for Medicare Advantage plans, will be only 0.81% higher than the growth rate applied for 2009. CMS also announced that it will apply a 3.41% reduction to all MA Part C risk adjustment scores to account for differences in disease . . .