Private Medicare Plans Favored Under New Trump Executive Order (1)

Medicare will encourage seniors to consider private insurance plans that offer many of the same benefits under an executive order steering patients away from traditional coverage that pays doctors based on the number of services provided.

The order, which President Donald Trump will sign Oct. 3, is to ensure that Medicare doesn’t favor its traditional coverage over Medicare Advantage, plans where private insurers manage benefits on behalf of the government, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar told reporters on a call.

Azar did not specify how the administration plans to prevent steering seniors into traditional Medicare and said the ...