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He has pushed to cut improper Medicare spending.

A16 Improper Medicare Payments Improper Medicare payments to doctors, hospitals and other health care providers increased slightly last year, after falling sharply in 1997 and 1998, federal officials said.

Improper Medicare payments to doctors, hospitals and other health care providers increased slightly last year, after falling sharply in 1997 and 1998, federal investigators said today.

The government has contended there was $650 million more in fraud related to improper Medicare reimbursement claims and kickbacks to doctors.

Ms. Brown said that 75percentt of the improper Medicare payments last year went to four kinds of providers: hospitals, which accounted for $3.6 billion, doctors, at $3 billion, suppliers of medical equipment, accounting for $1.8 billion, and home health care agencies, also responsible for $1.8 billion.

The company has had to defend four whistleblower lawsuits alleging improper Medicare billing.

In calculating the agency's rate of improper payments, Medicare officials told outside auditors to ignore government policies that would have accurately measured fraud, according to the report.

In previous reports, Ms. Brown estimated that improper payments cost Medicare $23.2 billion in 1996 and $20.3 billion in 1997.

Becky Reeves is the spokesperson for the American Coalition for Healthcare Claims Integrity (ACHCI), a nonprofit advocacy group committed to eliminating improper payments in Medicare.

As part of that plea agreement, the company said it had paid more than $2.3 million in illegal kickbacks to patient recruiters from 2003 to 2008, and as a result some of its hospitals received nearly $16 million in improper payments from Medicare and Medi-Cal, the state's Medicaid program for the poor.

He charged in lawsuits that both universities fraudulently billed Medicare for improper radiological services.