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House hearing spotlights alleged Medicare Advantage overpayments and proposed fixes
Summary
A joint House hearing examined payments to Medicare Advantage plans, citing MedPAC estimates that MA payments exceed traditional Medicare by roughly 20% and lawmakers urged payment-system reforms and new oversight tools.
A joint hearing of the House Ways and Means health and oversight subcommittees opened with members from both parties pressing for changes to how Medicare Advantage is paid, supervised and audited.
Rep. Lloyd Doggett, ranking member on the health subcommittee, told the panel the hearing presented “an opportunity to start paving a new bipartisan path toward fiscal responsibility,” and singled out what he described as “waste, fraud and abuse” in the program. Doggett cited nonpartisan estimates that Medicare Advantage (MA) payments exceed the cost of traditional Medicare by about 20% and said that disparity costs taxpayers tens of billions of dollars each year.
Why it matters: Members from urban and rural districts said overpayments to MA plans drive higher Part B premiums and reduce funding available for…
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