A New Way To Think About Medicare
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What's Called Up Coating?
Medicare advantage plans have used incentives to make it more costly for the average medicare beneficiary. They do what's called up coating, where they look through patient records and find diseases that may not be treated. The plan then gets a additional payment because that patient is classified as sicker - even though they're not being treated for being sicker. Yet they're still getting paid for that.
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