CMS Program Identifies 371.5 Million Dollars In Improper Medicare Payments In Three States
Friday, 29. February 2008
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that $371.5 million in improper Medicare payments has been collected from or repaid to health care providers and suppliers as part of a demonstration program using recovery audit contractors (RACs) in California, Florida and New York in 2007. Nearly $440 million has been collected since the program began in 2005.