{"id":3996,"date":"2025-05-21T23:02:23","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T23:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/21\/cms-expands-medicare-advantage-radv-audits-used-to-spot-potential-fraud\/"},"modified":"2025-05-21T23:02:23","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T23:02:23","slug":"cms-expands-medicare-advantage-radv-audits-used-to-spot-potential-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/21\/cms-expands-medicare-advantage-radv-audits-used-to-spot-potential-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"STAT+: Trump, building on Biden policy, to speed up audits of Medicare Advantage insurers"},"content":{"rendered":"

STAT+: Trump, building on Biden policy, to speed up audits of Medicare Advantage insurers
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President Trump\u2019s federal Medicare agency will expedite audits of Medicare Advantage insurers, a move that could claw back nearly $500 million a year for taxpayers, according to previous federal estimates.<\/p>\n

However, the audits remain mired in a two-year-old lawsuit initiated by Humana, making it unclear how the Trump administration will implement its new strategy.<\/p>\n

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services said Wednesday it will hire almost 2,000 additional coders by this September and use \u201cadvanced\u201d technology systems to comb through data and make sure diagnoses that Medicare Advantage insurers submit to the government are supported in patients\u2019 medical records. The agency did not say what kind of technology it would use.<\/p>\n

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STAT+: Trump, building on Biden policy, to speed up audits of Medicare Advantage insurers President Trump\u2019s federal Medicare agency will expedite audits of Medicare Advantage insurers, a move that could claw back nearly $500 million a year for taxpayers, according to previous federal estimates. However, the audits remain mired in a two-year-old lawsuit initiated by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2216,58,2157,2288,2213,153,2266,2151,2144,2152],"tags":[2150],"class_list":["post-3996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-business","category-cms","category-health-insurance","category-insurance","category-legal","category-medicare-advantage","category-policy","category-politics","category-stat","tag-statnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3996"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}