Medicare Audit Recovery Program Has Recovered $700M In Overpayments To Providers

Private auditors over about three years have recovered almost $700 million in Medicare overpayments to hospitals and other health care providers in six states as part of a recovery audit contractor program, the Wall Street Journal reports. Under the program, CMS pays auditors a portion of the amount of improper Medicare payments that they identify.Auditors reviewed $317 billion in Medicare claims and found $1.

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Filed under: Medicare / Medicaid / Tricare on July 16th, 2008