The Latest Breaking News from Medicare Advantage

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

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.

Medicare is a federal health insurance program available to people 65 years of age or older, as well as to people with certain disabilities

In 2018, responding to a wave of overdose deaths, Congress passed legislation requiring Medicare to pay for services at opioid treatment programs for the first time.

A new benefit aimed at helping treat opioid use disorder can be hard to access for those who use Medicare Advantage plans, advocates say.

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Some Medicare Advantage plans failed to produce any records to justify their payments, government records show

In April 2016, government auditors asked a Blue Cross Medicare Advantage health plan in Minnesota to turn over medical records of patients treated by a podiatry practice whose owner had been indicted for fraud.

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