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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:
This final report updates findings previously reported to the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA). Updated results of our review of 76 hospitals and 9 intermediaries indicate that the conditions reported in our initial report are national in scope. Based on statistical sampling techniques, we estimate that hospitals owed the Medicare program about $266 million in overpayments that the hospitals had kept and the intermediaries had failed to detect. To date, HCFA's actions have resulted in recoveries of the overpayments totaling about $66 million. This is a clear indication that HCFA should continue its pursuit of recovery of these overpayments.
Notice
This report may be subject to section 5274 of the National Defense Authorization Act Fiscal Year 2023, 117 Pub. L. 263.