{"id":605384,"date":"2009-11-16T09:42:18","date_gmt":"2009-11-16T14:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"a81f8fe2-e0eb-48f7-ad32-fcdc5ba61295"},"modified":"2009-11-16T09:42:18","modified_gmt":"2009-11-16T14:42:18","slug":"2009-report-false-medicare-claims-cost-government-more-than-47-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/605384","title":{"rendered":"2009 Report: False Medicare Claims Cost Government More Than $47 Billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5j1-e3AW6RglZGaSK98EdgH97WgKQD9BVQ8Q00\" >The Associated Press<\/a>: \"The government paid more than $47 billion in questionable Medicare claims including medical treatment showing little relation to a patient's condition, wasting taxpayer dollars at a rate nearly three times the previous year. Excerpts of a new federal report, obtained by The Associated Press, show a dramatic increase in improper payments in the $440 billion Medicare program that has been cited by government auditors as a high risk for fraud and waste for 20 years. It's not clear whether Medicare fraud is actually worsening.\" <br \/><br \/>Much of the increase is attributed to better data collection and the new report shows the challenges the government faces to combat fraud: \"While noting that several new anti-fraud efforts were beginning, the government report makes clear that 'aggressive actions' to date aimed at reducing improper payments had yielded little improvement. ... [President] Obama is expected to announce new initiatives this coming week to help crack down on Medicare fraud.\"\u00a0This\u00a0week the\u00a0Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services\u00a0is also planning to unveil a new\u00a0Web site\u00a0with additional data\u00a0(Yen, 11\/15).<img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/khn\/fulltext\/~4\/Ll9ZczaRt0E\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Associated Press: &#8220;The government paid more than $47 billion in questionable Medicare claims including medical treatment showing little relation to a patient&#8217;s condition, wasting taxpayer dollars at a rate nearly three times the previous year. Excerpts of a new federal report, obtained by The Associated Press, show a dramatic increase in improper payments in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-605384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2xug","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}