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INSIDE THE STORY: Insurers Are Fighting To Protect Their Medicare Fraud
Health insurers are ready to sue the government if Biden officials don’t let them keep years of overpayments from Medicare.
This mini-episode is part of our Inside The Story series, where we highlight some of The Lever’s original reporting and speak with the journalists who wrote the story. Frank Cappello speaks with Andrew Perez who details their new story published by The Lever:
"This year, for the first time, a majority of seniors eligible for Medicare will be on privatized Medicare Advantage plans. Now, the insurance companies raking in giant profits from these for-profit plans are mounting a pressure campaign and planning to sue the government to protect years of overpayments they’ve extracted from Medicare."
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