# BEST OF: Michael Chernew on Medicare Advantage Benchmarks

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Published: 2026-07-28T05:00:00+00:00
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## Resource

A Health Podyssey is on vacation in July. We will return with new episodes in August 2026. This episode originally aired on April 18, 2023 Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Michael Chernew from the Harvard Medical School on his recently-published paper examining the effects of lower Medicare Advantage benchmarks on plan generosity and benefits. The authors found that a $1,000 per year decrease in the benchmarks would lead to only moderate increases in annual premiums, deductibles and co-pays. Order the April 2023 issue of Health Affairs . Currently, more than 70 percent of our content is freely available - and we'd like to keep it that way. With your support , we can continue to keep our digital publication Forefront and podcasts free for everyone. Subscribe: RSS | Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | Google Podcasts

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