{"id":1561,"date":"2014-06-04T06:14:45","date_gmt":"2014-06-04T10:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/?p=1561"},"modified":"2014-06-15T22:44:26","modified_gmt":"2014-06-16T02:44:26","slug":"medicare-advantage-billing-errors-cost-taxpayers-billions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/2014\/medicare-advantage-billing-errors-cost-taxpayers-billions\/","title":{"rendered":"Medicare Advantage Billing Errors Cost Taxpayers Billions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px\"><em><strong>NBCNews<\/strong> <\/em>- Dr. David Wennberg, a Dartmouth Institute researcher who has studied the payment issue, said that with billions of tax dollars at stake federal officials need to hit the \u201creset button\u201d on risk scoring.\u00a0Wennberg said Medicare Advantage \u201cis a very large program with lots of money flowing through it. There are always vested interests in protecting the status quo.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/investigations\/medicare-advantage-billing-errors-cost-taxpayers-billions-n120446\" target=\"_blank\">Read more...<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><b><i>NBCNews<\/b><\/i> &#8211; Dr. David Wennberg, a Dartmouth Institute researcher who has studied the payment issue, said that with billions of tax dollars at stake federal officials need to hit the \u201creset button\u201d on risk scoring. Wennberg said Medicare Advantage \u201cis a very large program with lots of money flowing through it. There are always vested interests in protecting the status quo.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news","author-15"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4r3h1-pb","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1561"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1562,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1561\/revisions\/1562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}