Private insurers' Medicare Advantage plans cost Medicare an extra $34.1 billion in 2012

Private insurance companies that participate in Medicare under the Medicare Advantage program and its predecessors have cost the publicly funded program for the elderly and disabled an extra $282.6 billion since 1985, most of it over the past eight years. In 2012 alone, private insurers were overpaid $34.1 billion. That's wasted money that should have been spent on improving patient care, shoring up Medicare's trust fund or reducing the federal deficit, researchers say.

Fuente : http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-05/pfa...