The Overpayment Issue
Part: 1 The Office of Inspector General wrote in their Data Brief in 2021, that in fiscal year 2019 (FY 2019) Medicare spent 109.8 billion dollars on 8.7 million inpatient hospital stays for Medicare beneficiaries or $12,620.69/stay. This was pre-COVID pandemic spending. The share of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) devoted to health increased sharply […]
