Patient groups criticize UnitedHealthcare s Medicare Advantage marketing healthcarefinancenews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from healthcarefinancenews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Deceptive Medicare marketing draws ire of low-income seniors healthcarefinancenews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from healthcarefinancenews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
U.S. Senators Maggie Hassan (D-NH) and Roger Marshall, M.D. (R-KS) have introduced the bipartisan Medicare & You Handbook Improvement Act, which is meant to ensure that when seniors assess their Medicare coverage options, they have the necessary information they need on health plan choices and supplemental insurance. The bill was crafted partly in response to rising complaints
Eleven Democratic senators have sent a letter to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, asking the federal government to enact stronger consumer protections for Medicare Advantage in light of their concern over marketing practices for the program. This concern was spurred, in part, by a recent report released by Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden, D-Ore.,
Health experts are warning older adults about an uptick in misleading marketing tactics that might lead some to sign up for Medicare Advantage plans that don’t cover their doctors or prescriptions and drive up their out-of-pocket costs.