{"id":11355,"date":"2026-02-11T14:17:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T14:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=11355"},"modified":"2026-02-11T14:17:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T14:17:00","slug":"medicare-advantages-discipline-era-and-why-the-final-rate-notice-matters-more-than-it-appears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=11355","title":{"rendered":"Medicare Advantage\u2019s Discipline Era \u2014 and Why the Final Rate Notice Matters More Than It Appears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medcitynews.com\/2026\/02\/medicare-advantages-discipline-era-and-why-the-final-rate-notice-matters-more-than-it-appears\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The challenge for policymakers is balance: encouraging rigor without unintentionally weakening a program that now serves the majority of Medicare beneficiaries. Thoughtful rate calibration can determine whether this transition strengthens the program or strains it unnecessarily.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/medcitynews.com\/2026\/02\/medicare-advantages-discipline-era-and-why-the-final-rate-notice-matters-more-than-it-appears\/\">Medicare Advantage\u2019s Discipline Era \u2014 and Why the Final Rate Notice Matters More Than It Appears<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/medcitynews.com\/\">MedCity News<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The challenge for policymakers is balance: encouraging rigor without unintentionally weakening a program that now serves the majority of Medicare beneficiaries. Thoughtful rate calibration can determine whether this transition strengthens the program or strains it unnecessarily. The post Medicare Advantage\u2019s Discipline Era \u2014 and Why the Final Rate Notice Matters More Than It Appears appeared&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":11356,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-medicine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11355"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}