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07 Sep Government Officials And Agencies Work To Strengthen Medicaid’s Integrity

Posted at 13:16h in Medicaid

In 2017, improper payments within the Medicaid program reached a total of $37 billion, according to CMS. That equals 10 percent of the federal dollars spent on the program. Moreover, 99.2 percent of the payments made were overpayments. To make matters worse, under the current...

08 Dec GAO Reports $95 Billion Wasted in Fiscal 2016

Posted at 13:58h in Medicaid

The GAO reported this week that The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services must create a much more robust risk-based anti-fraud strategy for the Medicare and Medicaid programs. Improper payments within both programs amounted to about $95 billion in fiscal 2016. The Government Accountability Office, in...

14 Feb $36 Billion in Improper Medicaid Payments in 2016

Posted at 17:16h in Medicaid

For the fourth straight year, the federal government increased the amount of money described as improper payments. The Government Accountability Office is reporting that agencies exceeded $144 billion in improper payments in fiscal 2016, up from $137 billion in 2015. This increase translates to a higher...

08 Oct $77.4 Billion in Improper Medicaid & Medicare Payments – 2014

Posted at 21:08h in Medicaid

A GAO report uncovered data that the government accumulated more than $124 billion in improper payments in 2014, $19 billion more than the year before. The Oct. 1 report uncovered that the outpouring in payments came almost entirely from Medicare and Medicaid, which account for the...

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07 Sep Government Officials And Agencies Work To Strengthen Medicaid’s Integrity

08 Dec GAO Reports $95 Billion Wasted in Fiscal 2016

14 Feb $36 Billion in Improper Medicaid Payments in 2016

08 Oct $77.4 Billion in Improper Medicaid & Medicare Payments – 2014

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