A bipartisan group of U.S. senators are calling for Medicare Advantage (MA) plan providers to improve transparency by reporting how much they are actually paying for patient services and how much patients are paying.
The group — Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV), Bill Cassidy (R-LA) and Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) — sent a letter on December 7 to the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services regarding "shortfalls" in the agency's data collection and reporting practices for MA plans. The letter comes on the heels of a new bill the group introduced last month that seeks to help shore up those shortfalls.
