Sentence examples for estimated improper from inspiring English sources
In fiscal year 2010 alone, Medicare had estimated improper payments of almost $48 billion; this estimate did not include improper payments in its prescription drug benefit program, for which the agency has not yet determined a total amount.
The American Medical Association also raised questions about the statistical methods used by the inspector general to estimate improper payments.
"It's estimated that improper payments cost taxpayers almost $100 billion last year alone," he said.
In previous reports, Ms. Brown estimated that improper payments cost Medicare $23.2 billion in 1996 and $20.3 billion in 1997.
A government auditor has estimated that improper allocation of wireless spectrum to favored mobile phone companies might have cost the country nearly $40 billion in revenue, compared to what it might have earned through an auction.
An example of the latter is the classical problem of estimating an improper complex-valued random signal in colored noise with an additive white part addressed in [29].
The Department of Health and Human Services has estimated a national improper payment rate for Medicaid of 9.4 percent (with the federal share estimated at $22.5 billion) for fiscal year 2010.
As the largest single payer for health care in the United States, CMS has used its vast store of data to track hospital readmission rates in the Medicare program (importantly finding a rapid decline in readmission rates in 2012 and 2013), and combat Medicare fraud (in its first year the system stopped, prevented, or identified an estimated $115 million in improper payments).
In the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005, the Federal Emergency Management Agency paid out an estimated $1 billion in fraudulent or improper claims, according to Congressional investigators, more than 15percentt of all the aid it distributed to individuals.
Prosecutors estimated that 200 patients had the improper operations.
Putnam has estimated that managers made $700,000 in improper gains -- not that shareholder losses were $700 million.
