Insurers subject to provisions in the new Medicare law
A major obstacle to the success of the new Medicare law has evolved in recent weeks: private insurers have said that the Bush administration not to increase their role in disease, when they serve large multinational State regions, as wants the White House.
Congress heavily to the increase in payments private health insurance during the past year in the hope that it would be much more Medicare recipients.
But the Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans, the backbone of the nation private health insurance, and other insurers said it was not possible for her to create networks of doctors and hospitals on Main regions like New England or the Middle West.
You want the government to appoint 50 regions, one for each state. That is the preference has explained that, in separate letters to the Bush administration, represented by the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association and America’s Health Insurance Plans, the head of lobby for the health care industry.
A White House document describes the ideas of President Bush’s disease for revision in March 2003, “State regions of large multinationals,”and it contained a map test 10 regions.
Large health plans regions of force to serve rural areas, they avoid history, management officials say. According to this logic, if a health plan wanted lucrative Medicare business in Chicago and its suburbs, it could serve rural Illinois and Iowa and perhaps Nebraska as well.
But Alissa Fox, Policy Director for Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, said: “The only way to ensure competition and expand living choices for beneficiaries is 50 State-based regions.”
If the administration insists on the multi-state regions, Ms. Fox said, “it is virtually impossible for most private projects to be ready for the year 2006, as Droge”Vorteile and new opportunities for insurance must be available. The amount of the contribution financial risk increases with the size of a region, she said, insurers must be larger capital reserves and exploitation in a multi-region.
Diana C. Dennett, Executive Vice President of America’s Health Insurance Plans, said his group is also strongly supported the creation of 50 regions.”
Private plans are discouraged to participate in the disease, if it is reassuring and licensing contracts with doctors and hospitals around the country in which they have never done, “said Dennett.
“In many rural areas,’’she said,” providers are not ready, contracts with Medicare Managed Care Plans,”for prices to the detriment of traditional fee-for-service Medicare program.
Several private projects available to Medicare beneficiaries in Boston, for example. But health policy experts say make these plan
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