By Cheryl Clark MedPage Today, December 3, 2019 Like many of the 22 million seniors now enrolled in Medicare Advantage (MA) plans, Tom Mills belatedly discovered its dirty little secret….
Repeat: Medicare Advantage & Other Private Investment Hurt Medicare
Summary: A September 2021 Health Affairs blog revealed how Medicare Advantage insurers use aggressive and fraudulent diagnostic coding practices to artificially boost revenues, with similar risks looming from Direct Contracting…
Medicare Advantage Under-Performance
A commentary on Medicare Advantage in a high-profile medical journal delicately discusses issues with MA performance. We believe the evidence warrants a much more critical stance. We need not accept the inevitability of Medicare capture by under-performing private insurance.
…market, as first demonstrated by Kenneth Arrow. The authors conclude that “the power of the Medicare Advantage industry and the huge numbers of older voters enrolled in Medicare Advantage plans…
How Medicare Advantage Distorts Clinical Outcome Data
…Medicare Advantage patients had a higher risk of ED direct discharges (RR, 1.44) and observation stays (RR, 2.38) for ACSCs vs traditional Medicare patients. Overall, Medicare Advantage patients were at…
Kitchen Table Campaign: Medicare Disadvantage
…more about Medicare Advantage One-pager: Medicare Advantage; Bad for Patients, Great for Profiteers Policy primer: The Problems with Medicare Advantage Comparison chart: Medicare Advantage vs. Medicare for All PNHP comment:…
Obama administration’s dishonest promotion of Medicare Advantage
…Advantage plans this year and are dropping by less than 1 percent in 2012. The health care law softens the impact of Medicare Advantage cuts in 2012 by providing billions…
Time to hold private Medicare Advantage plans accountable
By Miranda Rosenberg, MS2 Palm Beach Post, Sept. 2, 2014 In 2004, only about 5.3 million Medicare enrollees participated in a Medicare Advantage plan. Now, that number has nearly tripled…
Medicare Advantage Is a Massive Scam
The program rips off both the taxpayer and its own enrollees.
…make a lot of big promises about how great Medicare Advantage coverage is. There’s just one problem: The sales pitch is an abject lie. Medicare Advantage is much worse than…
Let’s end the Medicare Advantage shell game
Medicare Advantage in 2008 By Marsha, Gold, Sc.D. The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation June 2008 Today, a disproportionate share of the growth in MA (Medicare Advantage) appears to reflect…
‘Medicare Advantage’ a misnomer
…to be a great advantage for the private insurance companies that run the Medicare Advantage plans. They use our tax dollars to get paid to do what the government could…
Let's end the Medicare Advantage shell game
…for by a reduction in overpayments to the private Medicare Advantage plans. It is crucial that we understand what we are purchasing with these Medicare Advantage overpayments. The Medicare Advantage…
Extra benefits of Medicare Advantage plans
Medicare Advantage in 2007 CMS (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services) In 2007, the Medicare Advantage program is providing an affordable, high value choice for all Medicare beneficiaries. The value…