{"id":15579,"date":"2020-03-27T12:49:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-27T16:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=15579"},"modified":"2020-03-27T12:51:27","modified_gmt":"2020-03-27T16:51:27","slug":"15579","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=15579","title":{"rendered":"Anthem turned a blind eye to coding problems now DOJ alleging Medicare fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Justice has sued Anthem alleging that the health insurance company knowingly submitted claims with inaccurate medical codes as a way to get higher payments for its Medicare Advantage plans and turned \u201ca blind eye\u201d to coding problems. The federal government is alleging that Anthem reviewed medical records , but only focused on finding \u201call possible new revenue-generating codes\u201d\u00a0 while purposefully ignoring all erroneous diagnoses from 2014 to 2018. Read article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/doj-anthem-lawsuit-medicare-advantage-fraud-11cdba13-eacd-4847-9bb0-20aa993235f9.html\">here\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/department-of-justice-seal.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9098\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/department-of-justice-seal.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/department-of-justice-seal.jpg 225w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/department-of-justice-seal-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Justice has sued Anthem alleging that the health insurance company knowingly submitted claims with inaccurate medical codes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,37,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-finance","category-illegal-activities","category-medicare-fraud"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15579","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=15579"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15583,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15579\/revisions\/15583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}