{"id":13589,"date":"2019-07-16T07:25:27","date_gmt":"2019-07-16T11:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=13589"},"modified":"2019-07-16T07:36:22","modified_gmt":"2019-07-16T11:36:22","slug":"medicare-advantage-overbills-taxpayers-by-billions-a-year-as-feds-struggle-to-stop-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=13589","title":{"rendered":"Medicare Advantage Overbills Taxpayers By Billions A Year As Feds Struggle To Stop It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Fred Schulte and Lauren Weber for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>Health insurers that treat millions of seniors have overcharged Medicare by nearly\u00a0$30 billion the past three years\u00a0alone, but federal officials say they are moving ahead with long-delayed plans to recoup at least part of the money.<\/p>\n<p>Officials have known for years that some Medicare Advantage plans overbill the government by exaggerating how sick their patients are or by charging Medicare for treating serious medical conditions they cannot prove their patients have.\u00a0 Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/medicare-advantage-overbills-taxpayers-by-billions-a-year-as-feds-struggle-to-stop-it\/\">article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #444444; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: 'Open Sans', serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; word-spacing: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: #ffffff; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\">Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-899\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-1024x533.png 1024w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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>(By Fred Schulte and Lauren Weber for Kaiser Health News) Health insurers that treat millions of seniors have overcharged Medicare<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,21,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cms","category-health-care-finance","category-medicare-advantage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13589","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=13589"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13594,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13589\/revisions\/13594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}