{"id":23052,"date":"2024-07-09T08:28:55","date_gmt":"2024-07-09T12:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=23052"},"modified":"2024-07-09T08:28:57","modified_gmt":"2024-07-09T12:28:57","slug":"insurers-brought-in-50b-through-medicare-advantage-coding-wsj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=23052","title":{"rendered":"Insurers brought in $50B through Medicare Advantage coding: WSJ"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(By Rylee Wilson for <em>Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Medicare Advantage plans received $50 billion in payments between 2018 and 2021 for diagnoses insurers added to medical records, a Wall Street Journal investigation published July 8 has found.  Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beckerspayer.com\/payer\/insurers-brought-in-50b-through-medicare-advantage-coding-wsj.html\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.beckerspayer.com\/payer\/insurers-brought-in-50b-through-medicare-advantage-coding-wsj.html\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" class=\"wp-image-8863\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/file5381291239055mystery-search-spyglass-examine-examination-hunt-700x465.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/file5381291239055mystery-search-spyglass-examine-examination-hunt-700x465.png 700w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/file5381291239055mystery-search-spyglass-examine-examination-hunt-700x465-300x199.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Rylee Wilson for Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review) Medicare Advantage plans received $50 billion in payments between 2018 and 2021 for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,21,9],"tags":[80,422,62,309],"class_list":["post-23052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cms","category-health-care-finance","category-medicare-advantage","tag-cms","tag-health-insurers","tag-medicare-advantage","tag-upcoding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23052","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=23052"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23053,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23052\/revisions\/23053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}