{"id":24080,"date":"2025-03-05T09:00:22","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T14:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=24080"},"modified":"2025-03-05T09:00:23","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T14:00:23","slug":"unitedhealth-wins-ruling-over-2b-in-alleged-medicare-advantage-overpayments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=24080","title":{"rendered":"UnitedHealth Wins Ruling Over $2B in Alleged Medicare Advantage Overpayments"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(By Fred Schulte for KFF Health News)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Justice Department\u2019s years-long court battle to force UnitedHealth Group to return billions of dollars in alleged Medicare Advantage overpayments hit a major setback Monday when a special master ruled the government had failed to prove its case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In finding for UnitedHealth, Special Master Suzanne Segal found that the DOJ had not presented evidence to support its claim that the giant health insurer exaggerated how sick patients were to illegally pocket more than $2 billion in overpayment.  Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/news\/article\/unitedhealth-special-master-ruling-medicare-advantage-overpayments\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/news\/article\/unitedhealth-special-master-ruling-medicare-advantage-overpayments\/\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health polity news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"17\" class=\"wp-image-21118\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image.png 500w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image-300x34.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 Fred Schulte for KFF Health News) The Justice Department\u2019s years-long court battle to force UnitedHealth Group to return billions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,200,19,9],"tags":[238,62,559],"class_list":["post-24080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-finance","category-health-insurance","category-legal-actionscourt-decisions","category-medicare-advantage","tag-healthcare-finance","tag-medicare-advantage","tag-medicare-advantage-overpayments"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24080","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=24080"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24081,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24080\/revisions\/24081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}