Medicare institutional special needs plans

MedPAC’s commissioners held their latest public meeting on Thursday, April 9 and Friday, April 11.   The subjects on the meeting’s agenda were: improving payment incentives in Medicare analysis of regional benchmarks and benchmark-plan availability in the Part D prescription drug plan market preferred networks and pharmacy access in Part D estimated association between Medicare Advantage enrollment and hospitals’ and post-acute care providers’ finances information sources that beneficiaries use to make Medicare enrollment decisions institutional special-needs plans:  provision of services, network-adequacy requirements, and star ratings mandated report:  assessment of the Medicare ground ambulance data collection system Go  here for summaries of [...]