Medicare Advantage ‘Dark Money’ Group Attempts To Win Higher Payments For Insurance Companies

By Fred Schulte and Maia Rosenfeld and David Hilzenrath

(KFF Health News)  -- 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.