{"id":14757,"date":"2019-12-16T15:00:10","date_gmt":"2019-12-16T20:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=14757"},"modified":"2019-12-16T15:00:10","modified_gmt":"2019-12-16T20:00:10","slug":"oig-billions-in-estimated-medicare-advantage-payments-raise-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=14757","title":{"rendered":"OIG: Billions in estimated Medicare Advantage payments &#8216;raise concerns&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Morgan Haefner for <em>Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>Federal investigators are concerned Medicare Advantage organizations may be using chart reviews to inappropriately inflate their risk-adjustment payments, according to a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/oig.hhs.gov\/oei\/reports\/oei-03-17-00470.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">report<\/a>\u00a0released by the Office of Inspector General.\u00a0 Continue reading article<a href=\"https:\/\/www.beckershospitalreview.com\/finance\/oig-billions-in-estimated-medicare-advantage-payments-raise-concerns.html\"> here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/DHS-Office-of-Inspector-General.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9962\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/DHS-Office-of-Inspector-General-300x74.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"74\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/DHS-Office-of-Inspector-General-300x74.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/DHS-Office-of-Inspector-General.jpg 623w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice:<\/strong> 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>(By Morgan Haefner for Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review) Federal investigators are concerned Medicare Advantage organizations may be using chart reviews to<\/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-14757","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\/14757","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=14757"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14758,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14757\/revisions\/14758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}