Ensure Parity in Original Medicare and Medicare Advantage

Medicare Rights urges Congress to ensure equity between Medicare Advantage (MA) and Original Medicare, including both the scope of services provided and programmatic spending. This includes guaranteeing equal access to all services, such as supplemental benefits, implementing reforms that will eliminate overpayments to MA plans, and halting abuses of patient categorization rules—known as “upcoding”—that some health plans engage in to secure unacceptably high payments.