{"id":20543,"date":"2022-11-21T08:48:30","date_gmt":"2022-11-21T13:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=20543"},"modified":"2022-11-21T09:00:20","modified_gmt":"2022-11-21T14:00:20","slug":"hidden-audits-reveal-millions-in-overcharges-by-medicare-advantage-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=20543","title":{"rendered":"Hidden audits reveal millions in overcharges by Medicare Advantage plans"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Newly released federal audits reveal widespread overcharges and other errors in payments to Medicare Advantage health plans, with some plans overbilling the government more than $1,000 per patient a year on average.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/health-shots\/2022\/11\/21\/1137500875\/audit-medicare-advantage-overcharged-medicare\">  &#8230;here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By Fred Schulte and Holly K Hacker for NPR on November 21, 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>  <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"54\" class=\"wp-image-3902\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png 152w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo-150x55.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">N<strong>otice:<\/strong>&nbsp;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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newly released federal audits reveal widespread overcharges and other errors in payments to Medicare Advantage health plans, with some plans<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,21,6,9,4],"tags":[282,61,62],"class_list":["post-20543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-general","category-health-care-finance","category-medicare-general","category-medicare-advantage","category-medicare-fraud","tag-audits","tag-medicare","tag-medicare-advantage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20543","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20543"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20548,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20543\/revisions\/20548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}