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The debate on overpayment in Medicare Advantage: Pulling it together

Dennis Rogers by Dennis Rogers
September 29, 2022
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Health Affairs Forefront has published articles that advance two diametrically opposing assessments of issues regarding the Medicare Advantage (MA) program. In September 2021, Donald Berwick and Richard Gilfillan (B-G) argued that mounting MA overpayments, many from plan efforts to get physicians to code more diagnoses when they see a patient, simultaneously threaten Medicare’s fiscal soundness and health care delivery; for them, this “MA money machine” is reflected in the extremely high valuations obtained by start-up insurance companies focused on MA and primary-care physician practices that specialize in contracting with MA plans.

In his January 2022 response, George Halvorson (GH) categorically disputes many of the key B-G points, which he views as attacking the fundamentals underpinning MA, including the use of capitation as a payment approach. Most recently, Donald Crane (DC), president and CEO of America’s Physician Groups, advanced a viewpoint consistent with GH, albeit in a more measured narrative.

We have particular concerns with the politics of MA overpayment. This overpayment leads not only to higher profits by plans but to extra (and increasing) benefits for enrollees—a potent combination that complicates reforming the program. The rapid and continuing growth of private plans—which in February 2022 enrolled 46 percent of Medicare beneficiaries—highlights the urgency of reform measures to address excessive payments driven by coding increases, star ratings, and the potential for unreliable county-level rates based on the costs of fewer and fewer beneficiaries in traditional Medicare.

Read the full op-ed on Health Affairs here.

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