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Medicare+Choice: Payments Exceed Cost of Fee-for-Service Benefits, Adding Billions to Spending

HEHS-00-161 Published: Aug 23, 2000. Publicly Released: Aug 23, 2000.
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Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed Medicare Choice program payment issues, focusing on: (1) whether program spending for Medicare Choice plan enrollees has exceeded what Medicare-covered care for these beneficiaries would have cost in the fee-for-service (FFS) Medicare program; and (2) the extent to which payments to individual plans differ from expected FFS costs.

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