How Medicare Advantage plans dodged auditors and overcharged taxpayers by millions

(By Fred Schulte and Holly K. Hacker for NPR)

In April 2016, government auditors asked a Blue Cross Medicare Advantage health plan in Minnesota to turn over medical records of patients treated by a podiatry practice whose owner had been indicted for fraud.

Medicare had paid the Blue Cross plan more than $20,000 to cover the care of 11 patients seen by Aggeus Healthcare, a chain of podiatry clinics, in 2011. Continue reading here…

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