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By next year, half of Medicare beneficiaries will have a private Medicare Advantage plan. Most large insurers in the program have been accused in court of fraud.

Some doctors, burned by low reimbursements, have stopped testing for the virus. Patient samples to be tested for Covid-19 in Houston last year.Credit...Erin Schaff/The New York Times Feb. 3, 2021 Across the United States, some doctors are seeing reimbursement rates so low that they do not cover the cost of the test supplies, jeopardizing access to a tool experts see as crucial to stopping the virus’s spread. With new variants of the coronavirus emerging, experts say testing will be crucial to...

Burned by Low Reimbursements, Some Doctors Stop Testing for Covid Some insurers pay pediatricians less than the cost of the test itself, jeopardizing a tool to help control the pandemic. Dr. Robin Larabee loading an Abbott ID NOW Covid-19 test at Sapphire Pediatrics in Denver. The problem of low reimbursement rates appears to be most common with pediatricians using in-office rapid testing.Credit...Benjamin Rasmussen for The New York Times Published Feb. 3, 2021Updated Feb. 12, 2021 Dr. Robin La...