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HEADLINE: Medicare Advantage Plans Exaggerate Members’ Diseases to Make More Money | Reclaim Reform

HEADLINE: Medicare Advantage Plans Exaggerate Members’ Diseases to Make More Money | Reclaim Reform:



HEADLINE: Medicare Advantage Plans Exaggerate Members’ Diseases to Make More Money

Teachers and other retired public employees, you are being defrauded of your money and earned compensation. How do Medicare Advantage Plans code for additional cash for themselves?
In addition to our government giving private Medicare Advantage Plans a better deal to allow them to make more money, the plans are openly overbilling and overcharging for services. They are gaming the system unless new governmental policy changes are implemented. This is a license to steal until legislators change the system.
What was done to the plans hoisted upon retired teachers by the Illinois overseers of their health plan coverage?
Medicare Advantage Plan Scam
Imagine having a healthcare plan shoved at you with a take-it-or-leave-it clause. You were sent the information in early to mid November, and you had to say yes-or-no by December 13. Also, even though other plans go from January to December, because of the lateness of this healthcare coverage offer, your plan would begin in February.
Most importantly, a short outline of the actual plan suddenly became available, and a fuller explanation of coverage was given a little later, but additional details were not available until well after you had agreed to it. Even then, not all details were revealed.
In addition: “Something as simple as enrolling in your favorite pharmacy’s prescription savings plan could enroll you in a Medicare Part D plan, thereby causing your TRAIL HEADLINE: Medicare Advantage Plans Exaggerate Members’ Diseases to Make More Money | Reclaim Reform: