{"id":9959,"date":"2018-03-27T09:12:02","date_gmt":"2018-03-27T13:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=9959"},"modified":"2018-03-27T09:17:22","modified_gmt":"2018-03-27T13:17:22","slug":"9959","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=9959","title":{"rendered":"Medicare likely overpaid $367 million during a six-month period"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Health and Human Services\u2019 Office of Inspector General reviewed a random sample of 300 claims and found 61 percent did not meet medical necessity. The report extrapolating that the same rate of improper payments that led to $12,741 in improper reimbursement over a six-month period would equate to $367 million system wide. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcknights.com\/news\/therapy-overpayments-may-surpass-700-million-a-year-oig-suggests\/article\/753898\/\">Read article here\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/DHS-Office-of-Inspector-General.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9962\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/DHS-Office-of-Inspector-General-300x74.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"74\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/DHS-Office-of-Inspector-General-300x74.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/DHS-Office-of-Inspector-General.jpg 623w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<pre>Notice: 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>The Department of Health and Human Services\u2019 Office of Inspector General reviewed a random sample of 300 claims and found<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dhs-oig","category-health-care-finance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9959","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=9959"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9964,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9959\/revisions\/9964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}