By Walt Hickey Audits An analysis of 90 government audits into overpayments made to Medicare Advantage health plans covering billings from 2011 to 2013 revealed a combined $12 million in overpayments for the care of a sample of 18,090 patients. In 71 out of the 90 audits, auditors found overpayments, with 23 occasions over $1,000 a patient. This is important, because by February 1 the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services will release a final regulation that based on the results of those intense audits may order health plans to cough up hundreds of millions, possibly billions, of dollars’ worth of such overcharges back to the U.S. Treasury.
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Numlock News: January 31, 2023 • Salamanders, Robot Music, Mayans
Those Medicare numbers look tiny next to the COVID programs’ fraud.
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