readmissions. Medicare saves by coordinating their care in the community and connecting them to community resources. • The First Choice Option increases access to home and community care, preventing more expensive institutional care in nursing homes and hospitals. • Ending the bonus (averaging $1,000 a year per person) Medicare Advantage (MA) plans have received will level the playing field between Original Medicare and the MA plans. • The industry is now required to spend at least 85% of premiums on actual healthcare; 80% on policies sold to individuals and small businesses. These reforms have extended the life of the Medicare Trust Fund by eight years. And more reforms are coming in the next two years, while we wait for full ACA implementation in 2014. Over the next two years, there will be fundamental changes in how Medicare pays for services. Hospitals and other healthcare providers will be working to
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