{"id":12248,"date":"2018-12-19T11:23:24","date_gmt":"2018-12-19T16:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=12248"},"modified":"2018-12-19T11:23:24","modified_gmt":"2018-12-19T16:23:24","slug":"efforts-to-combat-healthcare-fraud-waste-and-abuse-is-paying-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=12248","title":{"rendered":"Efforts to combat healthcare fraud, waste, and abuse is paying off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Southern California and Harvard Medical School found in a new study the efforts to combat healthcare fraud, waste, abuse by Medicare, Medicaid, and public insurance programs may be paying off.\u00a0 In 2017 alone, federal healthcare fraud investigations and convictions returned about $2.6 billion in taxpayer dollars to public insurance programs. <a href=\"https:\/\/revcycleintelligence.com\/news\/medicare-medicaid-exclude-200-more-docs-for-healthcare-fraud\">Read article here\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/dreamstime_s_45676758-700x466.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8428\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/dreamstime_s_45676758-700x466-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/dreamstime_s_45676758-700x466-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/dreamstime_s_45676758-700x466.jpg 700w\" 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Southern California and Harvard Medical School found in a new study the efforts to combat healthcare fraud,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-illegal-activities","category-medicare-fraud"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12248","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=12248"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12249,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12248\/revisions\/12249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}