'Private contractors, through Medicare Advantage plans, game the system and bill patients as sicker than they are to rake in billions of taxpayer dollars,' said RepKatiePorter.
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of MA plans, which effectively insert a private middleman—commercial insurers—between healthcare providers and Medicare. That arrangement, MA opponents argue, often leads to higher costs and worse care for patients. "Medicare Advantage allows insurers to charge higher out-of-pocket costs than traditional Medicare, leading to record high profits. This is outrageous!" Rep. Jan Schakowsky , a signatory to the new letter, tweeted Thursday."I'm calling on CMS to reconsider allocating additional funds to these insurers. Our Medicare beneficiaries deserve better.
The lawmakers warned in their letter Wednesday that"unless CMS addresses overpayments, public funds will continue to finance private profits at the expense of taxpayers, as well as older adults and disabled individuals on Medicare." The letter came as physicians and members of Congress are also taking the Biden administration to task for building on a Trump-era pilot program that could fully
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