Get involved: Help Medicare Advantage investigation go further with donations and news tips
Over this past week we published the Medicare Advantage Money Grab investigation, which reveals that billions of tax dollars are wasted every year through leakage of a Medicare payment tool called a "risk score".
Related: Get involved: Medicare Advantage
If you are a health professional or medical coder and have a story to tell about Medicare Advantage billing issues or “risk scores”, please send Fred Schulte an email.
Related: Home is where the money is for Medicare Advantage plans
If you are a patient in a Medicare Advantage plan and have been scheduled for a “home visit” let us know your opinion.
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Was the visit helpful and do you think it will improve your health?
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Do you disapprove of the health plan sending someone to your home when you’re not sick?
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We also graphed how Medicare Advantage risk scores have changed in more than 14,000 health plans in 3,000 counties nationwide between 2007 and 2011.
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This story is part of Medicare Advantage Money Grab. Billing errors cost taxpayers billions. Click here to read more stories in this investigation.
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Copyright 2014 The Center for Public Integrity. This story was published by The Center for Public Integrity, a nonprofit, nonpartisan investigative news organization in Washington, D.C.
