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Report: UnitedHealthcare collected $3.7 billion in questionable Medicare funds

Posted On: Oct. 20, 2021 9:58 AM CST

UnitedHealth Group collected $3.7 billion in risk-adjustment Medicare payments in 2017 that were based on questionable billing practices, a federal agency found, according to the Minneapolis StarTribune. Whistleblower lawsuits have alleged that UnitedHealth Group and others have wrongly used data from chart reviews to boost Medicare payments — an industry-wide concern also raised previously by the OIG.