Medicare Advantage News: Final 2014 Pay-Rates Notice Spells Relief

It was a 45-day journey from depression to almost euphoria for the Medicare Advantage industry. A series of changes CMS made in the final 2014 MA payment rates released April 1 compared with the preliminary rates unveiled Feb. 15 reversed much, albeit not all, of the bad news in the earlier notice (MAN 2/28/13, p. 1). The changes demonstrated to some observers CMS’s continued commitment to the MA program…