{"id":24418,"date":"2025-05-22T08:52:53","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T12:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=24418"},"modified":"2025-05-22T08:52:55","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T12:52:55","slug":"cms-rolls-out-aggressive-strategy-to-enhance-and-accelerate-medicare-advantage-audits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=24418","title":{"rendered":"CMS Rolls Out Aggressive Strategy to Enhance and Accelerate Medicare Advantage Audits"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(Source &#8211; www.cms.gov)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Centers for Medicare &amp; Medicaid Services (CMS) announced a significant expansion of its auditing efforts for Medicare Advantage (MA) plans. Beginning immediately, CMS will audit all eligible MA contracts for each payment year in all newly initiated audits and invest additional resources to expedite the completion of audits for payment years 2018 through 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe are committed to crushing fraud, waste and abuse across all federal healthcare programs,\u201d said Dr. Mehmet Oz, CMS Administrator. \u201cWhile the Administration values the work that Medicare Advantage plans do, it is time CMS faithfully executes its duty to audit these plans and ensure they are billing the government accurately for the coverage they provide to Medicare patients.\u201d  Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cms.gov\/newsroom\/press-releases\/cms-rolls-out-aggressive-strategy-enhance-and-accelerate-medicare-advantage-audits\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.cms.gov\/newsroom\/press-releases\/cms-rolls-out-aggressive-strategy-enhance-and-accelerate-medicare-advantage-audits\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/CMS-logo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"382\" height=\"134\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/CMS-logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7780\" style=\"width:181px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/CMS-logo.jpg 382w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/CMS-logo-300x105.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 382px) 100vw, 382px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\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>(Source &#8211; www.cms.gov) The Centers for Medicare &amp; Medicaid Services (CMS) announced a significant expansion of its auditing efforts 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":[80,238,62,1004],"class_list":["post-24418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cms","category-health-care-finance","category-medicare-advantage","tag-cms","tag-healthcare-finance","tag-medicare-advantage","tag-medicare-advantage-audits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24418","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=24418"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24419,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24418\/revisions\/24419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}