Following up on a post from last month, where I noted that Hennepin County, Minnesota, receives more federal money than any county in America. This distinction largely rests on the fact that the county hosts the headquarters of the health insurance behemoth UnitedHealthcare Group (UNH), a large Medicaid and Medicare contractor.
From the Washington Examiner,
Minnesota-based UnitedHealthcare overbilled Medicaid by $47 million, federal audit finds.
The Examiner reports,
A federal audit has found that UnitedHealthcare, the country’s largest health insurance company by revenue, likely inflated its Medicare billing claims by at least $46.9 million between 2020 and 2021.
I assume from the context that this means audits for years after 2021 have y...
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