Medicare

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Advantage plans combined spent 93% less on substitutes than traditional Medicare, which the IG attributed to insurers using “reimbursement and utilization management tools” to limit abuse.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026

A 2024 study in the journal Health Affairs found that hospital discharges with the highest Medicare severity billing coding rose 41% between 2011 and 2019.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026

“Private plans have never been paid less than FFS Medicare,” says MedPAC, referring to fee-for-service or traditional, government-run Medicare.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 8, 2026

Medicare Advantage is a program under which the federal government pays private health insurers to operate a parallel program to Medicare.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 8, 2026

All but one of the others are female, with an average age I would guess in the late twenties, though the range seems to go from prom-fresh to well into the Medicare years.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich