The good news is that improper Medicare payments to health care providers fell sharply in 2015. The bad news: The overbilling still totaled in the hundreds-of-millions of dollars nationwide.
According to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid, overpayments totaled $350.6 million in 2015, the latest reporting year available. That figure was down approximately 85 percent from 2014's total of $2.3 billion — an all-time high according to the Council for Medicare Integrity, a nonprofit health care research…
The good news is that improper Medicare payments to health care providers fell sharply in 2015. The bad news: The overbilling still totaled in the hundreds-of-millions of dollars nationwide.
According to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid, overpayments totaled $350.6 million in 2015, the latest reporting year available. That figure was down approximately 85 percent from 2014's total of $2.3 billion — an all-time high according to the Council for Medicare Integrity, a nonprofit health care research…