Medicare Fraud
Medicare’s efforts to root out improper payments, fraud, waste and abuse
The Medicare program covers 68 million people and represents 15 percent of all federal spending. There are 1.4 million healthcare providers and almost a dozen different payment systems; improper payments and fraud have occurred. Despite actions over the years to reduce…
Will cutting fraud save Medicare?
In 2022, the total amount spent on Medicare was $982 billion, and Medicaid spending was $864 billion. The federal government has estimated that 7.5 percent of payments on traditional Medicare in 2022 were for “improper or fraudulent payments”; for Medicaid,…