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Medicare Advantage News

News and Analysis of Medicare Advantage, Medicare Part D and Managed Medicaid

Medicare Advantage News is a biweekly 8-page newsletter that provides news and analysis of changes to the Medicare Advantage and managed Medicaid programs plus intelligence on strategies to retain enrollees and reduce costs. Each issue is packed with insight from experts on how to:

• Cope with the payment cuts that begin in 2012 and will increase in subsequent years under the reform law.
• Make benefit-design changes and premium adjustments for the upcoming plan year, while still complying with CMS’s rigid new restrictions on increases in total benefit costs.
• Adjust strategies to fare better with the accelerated and shorter annual marketing and enrollment period.
• Brace for the impact of a potential 2% payment cut resulting from the mandatory “sequestration” to reduce the nation’s budget deficit.
• Prepare for the coming end of the federal Retiree Drug Subsidy, as it affects employers’ interest in moving retirees to MA plans.
• Alter operations to take advantage of much-needed quality bonuses when CMS changes the star ratings for 2013.

With a period of tremendous uncertainty ahead, there are great risks – and terrific opportunities – for health plans and their partners. Medicare Advantage News can help you identify and reduce these risks...and transform major changes into winning business strategies. Medicare Advantage News is a reliable source of competitive intelligence, with the latest news and data on:

• Enrollment trends and market expansions,
• Mergers, acquisitions and business deals
• Bids, proposals and contracts,
• Federal oversight issues,
• State mandates, and
• Marketing strategies.

Medicare Advantage News has been published by AIS since 1995. A one-year subscription includes:

• 24 biweekly issues of Medicare Advantage News delivered First Class by U.S. Mail and electronically (optional)
• Informative, subscriber-only E-alerts when timely news breaks
• AIS’s 100% Satisfaction Guarantee
• Access to a subscriber-only Web page with:
  • Three years of searchable archives of past issues,
  • Recent stories of interest and hot topic articles grouped for convenient reading, and
  • Regular postings from your editor.