{"id":7510,"date":"2017-07-21T09:29:12","date_gmt":"2017-07-21T13:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=7510"},"modified":"2017-07-21T09:29:12","modified_gmt":"2017-07-21T13:29:12","slug":"improper-and-overpayments-for-medicare-and-medicare-advantage-costs-taxpayers-almost-60-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=7510","title":{"rendered":"Improper and Overpayments for Medicare and Medicare Advantage Costs Taxpayers Almost $60 Billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2016, the federal health officials made more than $16 billion in improper payments to private Medicare Advantage health plans. If we add in the overpayments for standard Medicare programs, the total amount approaches $60 billion \u2013 which is almost twice as much as the National Institutes of Health spends on medical research each year. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.publicintegrity.org\/2017\/07\/19\/21011\/fraud-and-billing-mistakes-cost-medicare-and-taxpayers-tens-billions-last-year\">Read article here\u2026<\/a><\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2016, the federal health officials made more than $16 billion in improper payments to private Medicare Advantage health plans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medicare-general","category-medicare-advantage","category-medicare-fraud"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7510","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=7510"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7511,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7510\/revisions\/7511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}