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April 24, 2008
Medicare Advantage: Options for Standardizing Benefits and Information to Improve Consumer Choice

From The Commonwealth Fund:

MA plans potentially provide additional value, but as plan choices have proliferated, consumers contemplating their options have had difficulty understanding how they differ.

Through "standardization"---more consistent types of information and a limited number of dimensions along which plans vary---MA plans could reduce complexity and improve beneficiaries' ability to make informed choices.

Such standardization steps would offer more meaningful variation in the health coverage options available to beneficiaries, Medicare officials and their community partners would find it far easier to educate beneficiaries about their health plan choices, and beneficiaries would better understand what they were buying.

Standardization might also strengthen the ability of the market-based Medicare Advantage program to incorporate beneficiary preferences.

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Posted on April 24, 2008 12:52 PM


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