{"id":10606,"date":"2018-06-05T08:55:30","date_gmt":"2018-06-05T12:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=10606"},"modified":"2018-06-05T08:55:30","modified_gmt":"2018-06-05T12:55:30","slug":"hhs-made-an-estimated-90-billion-in-improper-payments-within-medicaid-and-medicare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=10606","title":{"rendered":"HHS made an estimated $90 billion in improper payments within Medicaid and Medicare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">According to a new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report, found the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) made approximately $90 billion in improper payments to Medicaid and Medicare programs during 2017 and may require updated payment evaluation procedures to address improper payments. <a href=\"https:\/\/healthpayerintelligence.com\/news\/hhs-made-nearly-90b-in-improper-payments-to-medicaid-medicare\">Read article here&#8230;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/GAO.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10072\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/GAO-300x37.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"37\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/GAO-300x37.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/GAO.jpg 618w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre>Notice: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report, found the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) made approximately<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,16,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-finance","category-medicaid","category-medicare-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10606"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10607,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10606\/revisions\/10607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}