{"id":25697,"date":"2026-03-13T07:18:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T11:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=25697"},"modified":"2026-03-13T07:18:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T11:18:16","slug":"medicare-advantage-dark-money-group-attempts-to-win-higher-payments-for-insurance-companies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=25697","title":{"rendered":"Medicare Advantage \u2018Dark Money\u2019 Group Attempts To Win Higher Payments for Insurance Companies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

(By Fred Schulte and Maia Rosenfeld and David Hilzenrath for KFF Health News)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Judging by more than 16,400 comments recently posted on a federal government website, you\u2019d think there was a groundswell of older Americans demanding that federal officials hike payments to their Medicare Advantage health insurance plans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The \u201cdark money\u201d group does not reveal its funders or much else \u2014 other than to say it is \u201cdedicated to protecting and strengthening Medicare Advantage\u201d and is \u201cpowered by hundreds of thousands of local advocates nationwide.\u201d Continue reading here…<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health polity news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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