The phrase "advantage payments" is not a standard expression in written English and may cause confusion.
It could be used in contexts discussing payments that provide some form of benefit or advantage, but clarity is essential.
Example: "The company introduced advantage payments to incentivize employees who exceed their performance targets."
Alternatives: "benefit payments" or "incentive payments".
It voted last summer to reduce Medicare Advantage payments by $54 billion over five years, as part of a spending authorization bill for children's health, although the Medicare provision was later dropped.
Improve Medicare Advantage Payments.
The bill that passed the House and is now being considered again by the Senate would cut some Medicare Advantage payments and make it harder to start new plans or build a network of physicians.
12. Herman, B. CMS pitches 1.1%% boost to Medicare Advantage payments.
The Congressional Budget Office found, also in 2012, that repealing Obamacare "would have no retroactive effect on Medicare Advantage payments".
That reduction doesn't come from patient care, but changes in hospital payments and Medicare Advantage payments to private insurers.
This may be due to concerns about how the economic downturn and, in particular, how preliminary 2010 Medicare Advantage payment rates will hurt profits in 2010 and 2011.
Cummins also highlighted a bipartisan letter Cassidy signed last week asking the Center for Medicaid and Medicare Services to keep Medicare Advantage payment rates flat.
Reuters headlined on April 2nd, "In Reversal, US to Raise Medicare Advantage Payment Rate," and announced, "In a reversal that followed intense lobbying from the health insurance industry," the CMS "said on Monday it will increase the rate by 3.3percentt in 2014, reversing a 2.3percentt cut announced in February".
"While recent examples are more blatant than in the past", says Lipschutz, "over the last few years the insurance industry has tried to convince Medicare private plan enrollees to join 'grassroots' organizations that are designed to protest any cuts to Medicare Advantage plan payments, sometimes using misleading and/or inaccurate rhetoric.
The company already has relationships with 4.5 million businesses through QuickBooks and has a few advantages in payments processing.
