Medicare Advantage was created as a perverse incentive to give us value based care as opposed to traditional Medicare. And in some ways it's doing that in every metric that we look at. People have Medicare Advantage are better off, are healthier, they're getting treated better, they're more compliant and people who are getting cost or fee for cost programs. One of the other problems is that one of the major problems is upcoding and it's just rampant fraud throughout the system, as you point out. (27:13–27:26)
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Asserts that Medicare Advantage beneficiaries are healthier and receive better treatment compared to traditional Medicare beneficiaries.
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