medicare managed care risk selection and payment issues medicare+choice
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Medicare Managed Care
Risk Selection and Payment Issues
Medicare+Choice
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Plan for Today
• Review homework
• Tie up discussion of risk-selection
• Fruitbasket ! Medicare+Choice
• Checkpoint #5
• Team meetings (Medicare)
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Chart Comparing Health Status
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Risk Selection
Insurer’s (or capitated provider’s) mix of high-cost and low-cost enrollees does not match the average– More low-cost enrollees: “Favorable selection”– More high-cost enrollees: “Adverse selection”
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Risk-Adjustment
• Adjusting capitation payments to an insurer (or provider) to reflect actual (not average) mix of high-cost and low-cost enrollees
• Equivalent to paying different rates for high-cost and low-cost enrollees– Similar to Medicare’s inpatient Diagnosis-Related
Groups (DRGs)
• The challenge is identifying who is in which group
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Medicare Risk-Adjustment
• Instituted by Balanced Budget Act of 1997
• Based initially on inpatient diagnoses
• Goals– Stop overpaying plans that serve healthier mix
of enrollees (save $2 billion per year)– Encourage plans to serve sicker enrollees– Get plans to compete on price and quality, not
by skimming off good risks
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Checkpoints
• Checkpoint #5 – due 4/18– Will be returned by end of week
• Checkpoint #4 – revision due 4/25
• Checkpoint #5 – revision due by noon, 5/3 (middle of exam week)
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Checkpoint #5Capstone Exercise
• How/why different types of consumers choose different types of plans
• Mix of risks enters into averages that determine– premiums– utilization rates (-->plan costs)
– capitation
• But what if patients are not “average” ??
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Medicare+Choice
• What is Medicare+Choice? • Why Medicare+Choice?
• Plan alternatives
•Information Sources & Important Aspects of Plans
• Who’s likely to choose which plans?
• Potential problems with M+C
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What is Medicare+Choice?
• Created by the Balanced Budget Act of 1997• effective January 1999
• Expanded beneficiaries’ plan choices• provide beneficiaries with more alternatives to traditional Medicare
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Why Medicare+Choice?
• Competition on Cost, Benefits & Quality
• Competition Efficiency Save Medicare $
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Medicare Beneficiaries’ Alternatives
• Prior to Medicare+Choice:Medigap, HMO or POS
• New alternatives under M+C:
1. Preferred Provider Organizations (PPO)
2. Provider Sponsored Organizations (PSO)
3. Private Fee-for-Service (FFS)
4. Medical Savings Accounts (MSA)
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• Information sources1. Prefer unbiased sources2. Get most of their information from marketing
materials
Medicare Beneficiaries’ Information Sources
What Do Beneficiaries Care About?
• Physician-related factorschoicecommunication technical quality
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Potential Problems With M+C
• Risk selection problemsFavorable Selection: MSAs, PSOs, HMOsAdverse Selection: Traditional Medicare, FFS
• Educating/Informing beneficiaries on plan choices1-800-MEDICAREMedicare Compare (www.medicare.gov)
HEDIS CAHPS
• Beneficiaries’ ability to use quality indicators