{"id":12966,"date":"2019-04-03T08:46:52","date_gmt":"2019-04-03T12:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=12966"},"modified":"2019-04-03T08:46:52","modified_gmt":"2019-04-03T12:46:52","slug":"medicare-and-medicaid-made-23-billion-payment-errors-in-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=12966","title":{"rendered":"Medicare and Medicaid made $23 billion payment errors in 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">In a recent investigation by the Government Accountability Office found Medicare and Medicaid programs are at an elevated risk for fraud, waste, abuse, and mismanagement. Due to insufficient documentation, the Medicaid and Medicare paid a combined $27.5 billion in improper payments in fiscal year (FY) 2017. Read <a href=\"https:\/\/revcycleintelligence.com\/news\/documentation-issues-behind-23b-in-medicare-improper-payments\">article here\u2026<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent investigation by the Government Accountability Office found Medicare and Medicaid programs are at an elevated risk for<\/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-12966","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\/12966","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=12966"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12967,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12966\/revisions\/12967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}