Medicare Advantage Is a Superior Program (Part one)
by George C. Halvorson (The Health Care Blog 1/10/22)
The evidence for Medicare Advantage being a superior program compared to standard fee-for-service Medicare is so overwhelming that anyone who cares about actual Medicare Patients or who cares about the financial future of Medicare should be strongly supporting having as many people as possible enrolled in that program as soon as we can effectively make that happen.
Compared to fee-for-service Medicare, Medicare Advantage has better benefits.
Compared to fee-for-service Medicare, Medicare Advantage has a better tool kit at multiple levels.
Medicare Advantage has team care, connected care, and electronically supported care processes — and we know beyond any debate or dispute that those advantages exist for Medicare Advantage over standard fee-for-service Medicare because fee-for-service Medicare does not pay for those sets of services and literally labels it billing fraud if a caregiver who provides team care in a patients home to prevent a congestive heart failure crisis or to keep a life threatening and function impairing asthma attack from happening sends a bill to standard Medicare for those services.
