Technical Note: CMS’s Medicaid improper-payment reports are lagged as CMS audits one-third of states each year. The most recent report (the 2020 report) was an average of the audits completed in ...

Medicaid’s improper payment rate was lower than that of other federal health programs. Three other federal health care programs had improper payment rates ranging from 5.61% to 7.66%.

The GOP lawmakers, in the Aug. 17 letter, requested all state-specific Medicaid improper payment rate information from 2015 to 2020 for the committee to conduct oversight over the program’s waste.

That would mean Medicaid's improper payment rate is 16% to 20%. In a 2024 report covering the years 2022, 2023, and 2024, Medicaid's parent agency — the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services ...

(The Center Square) — Though payment errors for Medicaid and CHIP can add up to tens of billions of dollars every year, the situation is getting better in Pennsylvania. The Shapiro ...

Ohio’s Medicaid improper payment rate is double the national average at 44%, and 98% of that is caused by ineligible patients. Illinois isn’t far behind, with 37%, of which 95% is caused by ...

Improper payments cost Medicaid $86.49 billion in 2020 alone. A common misconception is that improper payments stem from fraud and abuse when in fact the majority stem from prosaic, ...

Medicaid’s escalating improper-payment rate is directly due to problems with Obamacare’s expansion of the program. While Medicaid used to be reserved largely for lower-income pregnant women ...

That would mean Medicaid’s improper payment rate is 16% to 20%. In a 2024 report covering the years 2022, 2023 and 2024, ...

Preventing improper payments, which comprised $17.5 billion of Medicaid spending in 2014, represents a specific concern for the long-term health of the government-run health program, according to ...

“One out of every $5 or $6 in Medicaid [payments] is improper.” — Russell Vought stated on June 1, 2025, in an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union.” Responding to charges that President Donald ...

That would mean Medicaid’s improper payment rate is 16% to 20%. In a 2024 report covering the years 2022, 2023 and 2024, ...