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Report: Correcting Medicare Advantage overpayments could save billions

January 27, 2012

Correcting overpayments in the Medicare Advantage program could save the federal government billions of dollars, according to a new Government Accountability Office report.

Report: Correcting Medicare Advantage overpayments could save billions

January 27, 2012

Correcting overpayments in the Medicare Advantage program could save the federal government billions of dollars, according to a new Government Accountability Office report.

GAO: Congress should increase federal Medicaid matching rates

November 15, 2011

Congress should consider temporarily increasing Medicaid's Federal Medical Assistance Percentage (FMAP) formula to help beleaguered state budgets, a new report suggests.

Report calls for CMS to get tougher with nursing home complaint investigations

May 13, 2011

The Government Accountability Office has released a report calling on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to implement more oversight into nursing home complaint investigations.

GAO: States to spend most of initial FMAP increase

October 12, 2010

State Medicaid programs are on track to spend roughly 94% of additional Medicaid funding from the 2009 stimulus package, according to a new report from the Government Accountability Office.

GAO report says hundreds more deficient nursing homes should be added to watch list

September 29, 2009

Nearly 450 nursing homes should be added to the federal government's Special Focus Facility (SFF) program, which monitors consistently problematic nursing homes, say the authors of a new report from the Government Accountability Office.