The OIG identified beneficiaries who died between Jan. 1, 2009, and Dec. 31, 2011, and analyzed Medicare claims and payments from 2011 for those individuals finding that Medicare inappropriately paid $23 million for services recorded as rendered after beneficiaries had died, despite CMS safeguards meant to prevent such payments, according to an HHS Office of Inspector General report.
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