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Illegal immigrants and prison inmates received more than $120 
million in Medicare services from 2009-2011 despite federal law 
that makes them ineligible for the program, according to two new 
reports from the HHS inspector general.

The issue, according to the reports, is timing. When Medicare is 
alerted that someone is incarcerated or undocumented, its 
contractors help prevent payments from going out the door. But 
often, Medicare�s databases aren�t up to date, and improper 
payments go out.

And Medicare lacks the tools to get the money back.

Nearly 3,000 illegal immigrants made thousands of claims 
resulting in $91.6 million in services improperly covered by 
Medicare during the three-year period studied in the report.

Over the same period, more than 135,000 Medicare beneficiaries 
were incarcerated, a second report shows. The report says that 
11,600 inmates submitted more than 75,000 claims and received 
services worth $33.6 million.

�CMS did not have policies and procedures to review 
incarceration information on a post-payment basis that would 
have detected improper payments that the prepayment edit could 
not prevent,� according to the report.

In responses to the reports, CMS agreed to identify improper 
payments and find ways to try to get the money back in the 
future, but the agency stopped short of pledging to go after the 
money already improperly out the door.

�CMS stated that it is committed to recovering overpayments we 
identified, but it must take into account the cost-benefit of 
recoupment activities, including potential appeal costs and the 
cost of manually reopening these claims,� according to the 
report.

http://www.politico.com/story/2013/01/reports-medicare-paid-120m-
in-illegal-care-86676.html

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