Plans overseen by insurers through Medicare Advantage, the private sector alternative to Medicare, the enormous public health program for the nation’s elderly, are coming under criticism for a pattern of “pervasive overcharging.”
Audits by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services of 37 Medicare Advantage plans in 2007 found that many of them overbilled the federal government, often by exaggerating the severity of a patient’s condition.
The audits from nearly a decade ago were only recently made public because of an open records request from the Center for Public Integrity, an investigative reporting organization.
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