Government says 2015 Medicare payments to insurers to rise

(Reuters) - The U.S. government on Monday said that final payments to private health insurers for 2015 private Medicare Advantage plans would rise 0.4 percent for the average plan compared with a proposed cut of 1.9 percent. During a news briefing, the health agency said that costs for Medicare health services continued to drop and that it now expected a decline of 3.4 percent versus the 1.9 percent on which it initially based its payments. It affects private insurers such as UnitedHealth Group Inc, Humana Inc and Aetna Inc that provide Medicare Advantage.



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