The Latest Breaking News from Medicare Advantage

Aggressive Medicare Advantage marketing floods TV and mailboxes with misleading ads. The Biden administration is cracking down

“These third-party groups have gotten very aggressive and creative.”

Fortune · Mar 6, 2023

Big Insurance "bailed out by taxpayers"

"The premiums and taxes paid by Americans enabled the Big Seven to make those profits," advocate says

Salon · Feb 28, 2023

The politics of Medicare funding - Roll Call

CQ Budget podcast unpacks the basis of GOP claims that the Biden administration wants to cut benefits in Medicare Advantage plans.

Roll Call · Feb 24, 2023

CVS buys Chicago-based Oak Street Health for $10.6B

Oak Street Health runs primary care centers mostly for lower-to-middle income people with Medicare Advantage plans.

Chicago Sun-Times · Feb 8, 2023

CVS acquires Oak Street primary care for $10.6 billion

CVS Health is plunging deeper into providing primary care with an approximately $10.6 billion deal to acquire Oak Street Health

The Independent UK · Feb 8, 2023

What’s new for Medicare in 2023?

A new year means changes to Medicare, including updated premiums and deductibles and sometimes big policy moves

The Independent UK · Feb 2, 2023

They openly ripped off Medicare

Health plans will be allowed to pocket hundreds of millions of dollars in overcharges for audits before 2018

Salon · Feb 1, 2023

Medicare Advantage plans overcharged government hundreds of millions but get to hang onto the money

The federal Medicare agency will require next to nothing from insurers for excess payments they got from 2011 to 2017 and won’t impose big penalties until audits for 2018 and beyond are conducted, which could be years.

Chicago Sun-Times · Jan 31, 2023

Feds expect to collect $4.7B in insurance fraud penalties

The Biden administration is estimating that it could collect as much as $4.7 billion from insurance companies with newer and tougher penalties for submitting improper charges on the taxpayers’ tab for Medicare Advantage care

The Independent UK · Jan 30, 2023

Did your health plan rip off Medicare?

Previously secret government audits reveal millions of dollars in overpayments to Medicare Advantage health plans

Salon · Jan 29, 2023