Sentence examples for regular medicare from inspiring English sources

Whatever their size, any cuts in Medicare Advantage would be partly aimed at helping avoid a politically unpalatable 10percentt reduction in regular Medicare payments to doctors.

Begun late in the Clinton administration as an experiment to cut costs through market competition, Medicare Advantage has instead proved more costly than regular Medicare.

But Congress refused to take no for an answer, and kept the program alive by paying the insurers substantially more than the costs per patient of regular Medicare.

Their biggest gamble involves the lucrative Medicare Advantage part of the business: doctor networks that are managed by the insurers, in contrast to regular Medicare in which members can choose virtually any doctor, who is paid directly by the government.

But Medicare Advantage has become a political target, because — whatever its vaunted enhancements — it costs the federal government 12percentt more for each enrollee, on average, than the regular Medicare system.

The Medicare Advantage policyholders cost the government 14percentt more than regular Medicare recipients, although they do often get extra benefits, sometimes including free Band-Aids or gym memberships.

As with regular H.M.O.'s, Medicare H.M.O.'s often have limitations, despite advertising claims.

They know they have Medicare for regular doctors and going to the hospital, but they have very deep concerns about what is going to happen with their prescriptions".

Of those hospitals, 307 will receive the maximum punishment, a 1 percent reduction in Medicare's regular payments for every patient over the next year, federal records show.

Starting next October, the federal agency will withhold 1 percent of Medicare's regular reimbursements to most hospitals and redistribute that money based on how they performed compared with other institutions and how much they improved from the previous year.

In 2007, for-profit long-term care hospitals had margins of 6 percent on Medicare patients, while regular hospitals lost an average of 6 percent on Medicare patients, according to the commission.