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WASHINGTON (AP) - Seniors and the disabled who are enrolled in some Medicare managed-care plans will get telephone calls from their insurers next year — just to be sure they intended to sign up after all, a Medicare official said Wednesday.
The precaution is a result of confusion and unscrupulous behavior on the part of some insurance agents.
The plans in question are part of Medicare's managed care program, in which the government pays a private insurer a monthly fee for providing enrollees with health care. One type of plan, called "private fee for service," has had skyrocketing enrollment in the past year because of the generous subsidy the government provides as well as fewer restrictions on which health care providers a patient can see.
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