{"id":4678,"date":"2016-10-13T05:42:46","date_gmt":"2016-10-13T09:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=4678"},"modified":"2016-10-12T14:45:53","modified_gmt":"2016-10-12T18:45:53","slug":"medicare-paid-1047-claims-for-medical-services-to-dead-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=4678","title":{"rendered":"Medicare Paid 1,047 Claims for Medical Services to Dead People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">An audit performed by the Inspector General for The Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services shows from 2013 to 2015 the agency improperly paid $1.5 million for medical services to dead people. <a href=\"http:\/\/freebeacon.com\/issues\/dead-people-received-1-5-million-benefits-medicare-program\/\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading article here\u2026.<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice<\/strong>: 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.<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An audit performed by the Inspector General for The Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services shows from 2013 to 2015<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medicare-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4678","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=4678"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4679,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4678\/revisions\/4679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}