Humana Inc. and other health insurance providers are temporarily suspending marketing of non-group Medicare Advantage plans after finding out that sales agents forged signatures and signed up dead people.
The move comes after complaints were made regarding insurance salesmen being overly agressive when trying to sell the health insurance plans to the elderly, even going as far as to sign up dead people and forge signatures.
The health insurance companies who suspended marketing the government funded plans are working with the U.S. Medicare health insurance program for the elderly and disabled.
Medicare has approximately 43 million beneficiaries, of which about 7.5 million are in Medicare Advantage plans. Enrollment of seniors in Private fee-for-service plans is rising sharply and now accounts for about 20% of the $60 billion Medicare Advantage program.
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