by c_hawkthorne

The government's audits uncovered about $12 million in net overpayments for the care of 18,090 patients sampled, though the actual losses to taxpayers are likely much higher.

Officials at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services have said they intend to extrapolate the payment error rates from those samples across the total membership of each plan — and recoup an estimated $650 million from insurers as a result.

But it's cool, the Medicare fund is quickly being drained anyway and it's expected to run out in 2028, and the insurance companies are making a killing off the taxpayers. Everything is fine.