{"id":10800,"date":"2026-01-16T01:18:26","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T01:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=10800"},"modified":"2026-01-16T01:18:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T01:18:26","slug":"kaiser-permanente-to-pay-556m-to-settle-medicare-advantage-fraud-allegations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=10800","title":{"rendered":"Kaiser Permanente to Pay $556M to Settle Medicare Advantage Fraud Allegations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medcitynews.com\/2026\/01\/kaiser-permanente-medicare-advantage-healthcare\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Five Kaiser Permanente affiliates agreed to pay $556 million to settle allegations from the Department of Justice that they improperly inflated Medicare Advantage payments through inaccurate diagnosis coding. The case is one of the largest risk-adjustment settlements to date \u2014 and it signals continued federal scrutiny of the program.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/medcitynews.com\/2026\/01\/kaiser-permanente-medicare-advantage-healthcare\/\">Kaiser Permanente to Pay $556M to Settle Medicare Advantage Fraud Allegations<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/medcitynews.com\/\">MedCity News<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five Kaiser Permanente affiliates agreed to pay $556 million to settle allegations from the Department of Justice that they improperly inflated Medicare Advantage payments through inaccurate diagnosis coding. The case is one of the largest risk-adjustment settlements to date \u2014 and it signals continued federal scrutiny of the program. The post Kaiser Permanente to Pay&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":10801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-medicine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10800"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}