Jun 1 2012
CQ HealthBeat: Medicare Official Predicts Rising Enrollments In Medicare Advantage
A top Medicare official predicted Wednesday that the private Medicare Advantage program will continue to grow at double-digit rates, although payment reductions in the program are included in the health care overhaul law. "Despite the rhetoric you hear that the Affordable Care Act has killed the private plan side of Medicare that's contrary to the truth," deputy administrator and director of the Center for Medicare at the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Jonathan Blum said (Norman, 5/30).
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