The center calculated the amount of waste by taking each region’s amount of overpayments and dividing it by the amount of beneficiaries.
The top regions include:
Washington, D.C. — $30.90 waste per beneficiary, $2.4 million in overpayments, 76,076 beneficiaries.
Delaware — $22.55 waste per beneficiary, $3.7 million in overpayments, 163,003 beneficiaries.
Texas — $20.62 waste per beneficiary, $50.2 million in overpayments, 2.4 million beneficiaries.
New Jersey — $18.09 waste per beneficiary, $22.7 million in overpayments, 1.2 million beneficiaries
Oklahoma — $17.80 waste per beneficiary, $10 million in overpayments, 557,128 beneficiaries.
Connecticut — $17.17 waste per beneficiary, $8 million in overpayments, 465,754 beneficiaries.
Louisiana — $15.41 waste per beneficiary, $8.4 million in overpayments, 547,162 beneficiaries.
Pennsylvania — $14.73 waste per beneficiary, $22.1 million in overpayments, 1.5 million beneficiaries.
California — $14.72 waste per beneficiary, $47.8 million in overpayments, 3.2 million beneficiaries.
Arkansas — $14.21 waste per beneficiary, $6.7 million in overpayments, 469,450 beneficiaries.
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