Inside Medicare Advantage ‘dark money’ group’s campaign to win bigger payments to insurers

Inside Medicare Advantage ‘dark money’ group’s campaign to win bigger payments to insurers

Judging by more than 16,400 comments recently posted on a federal government website, you’d think there was a groundswell of older Americans demanding that federal officials hike payments to their Medicare Advantage health insurance plans.Yet about 82% of the comments are identical to a letter that appeared on the website of a secretive advocacy group called Medicare Advantage Majority, a data analysis by KFF Health News has found.The “dark mone…