Healthcare Finance News December 11, 2023
The groups claim the advertising fails to tell people about what they lose when they make the switch to Medicare Advantage.
Patient advocacy groups have sent a letter to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services criticizing UnitedHealthcare’s Medicare Advantage marketing, asking the agency to investigate potentially misleading advertising tactics.
Signed by the National Health Law Program, National Disability Rights Network, Disability Rights Connecticut and the Center for Medicare Advocacy, the letter claims that an ever-increasing percentage of Medicare beneficiaries and being persuaded to move to Medicare Advantage plans – in part by offering extra benefits not covered under the traditional Medicare program, but also in part through misleading advertising.
While these plans do in some cases provide additional benefits...
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