{"id":17577,"date":"2021-01-29T09:51:22","date_gmt":"2021-01-29T14:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=17577"},"modified":"2021-01-29T09:51:22","modified_gmt":"2021-01-29T14:51:22","slug":"from-2014-to-2017-cms-had-an-improper-payment-rate-of-60-7-percent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=17577","title":{"rendered":"From 2014 to 2017, CMS had an improper payment rate of 60.7 percent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a new Office of Inspector General (OIG) audit, the Centers for Medicare &amp; Medicaid Services (CMS) and its contractors did not use Comprehensive Error Rate Testing (CERT) data to identify healthcare fraud or waste.\u00a0 OIG found from 2014 to 2017, CMS had an improper payment rate of 60.7 percent which accounting for $3.5 million in healthcare fraud, waste and abuse. Read article <a href=\"https:\/\/revcycleintelligence.com\/news\/cms-failed-to-flag-medicare-fee-for-service-healthcare-fraud-waste\">here\u2026<\/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>\u00a0The 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>According to a new Office of Inspector General (OIG) audit, the Centers for Medicare &amp; Medicaid Services (CMS) and its<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,21,6,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cms","category-health-care-finance","category-medicare-general","category-medicare-fraud"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17577","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=17577"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17578,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17577\/revisions\/17578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}