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Why Medicare Advantage costs taxpayers billions more than it should

Key findings: Federal officials have made billions in “improper” payments to Medicare Advantage plans traced to risk score errors. Medicare Advantage risk scores rose much faster than the national average in hundreds of counties nationwide between 2007 and 2011. That rise in risk scores cost taxpayers more than $36 billion; critics attribute that more to […]