US EditionTaxpayers Spent Billions Covering the Same Medicaid Patients Twice
- Taxpayers funded duplicate Medicaid payments totaling up to $4.3 billion from 2019 to 2021, according to a Wall Street Journal investigation.
- About 660,000 patients were enrolled in Medicaid in more than one state each year, leading to duplicate payments to over 270 insurers.
- Centene, Elevance Health, and UnitedHealth Group received hundreds of millions in duplicate payments due to outdated systems.
- Federal officials state they are working with states to address the issues, but the federal government has full visibility into enrollments and the waste continues.
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Report: Medicaid Misspent $4.3 Billion in Duplicate Payments - The Michigan Star
by Fred Lucas Taxpayers spent at least $4.3 billion over a three-year period covering the same Medicaid patients twice, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. Medicaid paid health insurance companies for hundreds of thousands of patients who signed up for the program in two or more separate states. This happened when a patient moved to a different state but Medicaid continued paying the insurance company in the state where the resident pre…
Report: Medicaid Misspent $4.3 Billion in Duplicate Payments
Taxpayers spent at least $4.3 billion over a three-year period covering the same Medicaid patients twice, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. Medicaid paid health insurance companies for hundreds of thousands of patients who signed up for the program in two or more separate states. This happened when a patient moved to a different state but Medicaid continued paying the insurance company in the state where the resident previously lived. …
Billions Of Taxpayer Dollars Wasted On Duplicate Medicaid Payments. Musk Vows, ‘DOGE Team Will Fix.’
Taxpayers footed duplicate payments for hundreds of thousands of Medicaid patients across the United States in recent years, totaling up to at least $4.3 billion in waste, according to a Wall Street Journal investigation published on Wednesday. Some of the largest insurance companies in the country — such as Centene, Elevance Health, and UnitedHealth Group — received hundreds of millions of dollars each in duplicate Medicaid payments, the WSJ re…
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