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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Sep 19.
Published in final edited form as: Health Serv Res. 2011 May 24;46(5):1417–1435. doi: 10.1111/j.1475-6773.2011.01275.x

Table 2.

Average Annual Change in Monthly Medicare Advantage Payment Rates ($2005) By County Payment Rate Category and Proportion of Counties Receiving Each Rate Type

2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005
Blend 7.67 (9.5%) 19.3 (1.9%)
Floor 57.39 (71.2%) −0.46 (39.3%) 26.35 (44.4%)
Minimum Update −17.2 (90.5) −12.04 (28.8%) −21.61 (60.7%) −11.03 (100%) 16.6 (13.0%) 14.3 (61.3%)
100% FFS 86.9 (40.7%) 23.2 (38.7%)

Average increase in monthly per-enrollee payment rates. Proportion of study counties receiving each rate category in parentheses. 398 county-year observations from 74 counties in Arizona, Florida and New York, 1999 – 2005 with at least 10,000 Medicare beneficiaries and 3% MA penetration.