Top Stories: Audits show overcharges to Medicare Advantage plans; Attorneys general urge Apple to add reproductive data protections

Photo: Marko Geber/Getty Images

New audits have raised the question: Are the feds being overbilled in their Medicare Advantage payments? I’m Jeff Lagasse with Healthcare Finance News, and we’ll take a closer look at that and other big news in this week’s Top Stories, including state AGs urging Apple to add new protections for reproductive health data, and Amazon Web Services launching a new AI product.

For more news and features from Jeff Lagasse, visit Healthcare Finance News.

In this episode:
 

Talking Points:
 

• Some MA plans overbilled the government more than $1,000 per patient a year on average
• The audits uncovered about $12 million in net overpayments for the care of 18,090 patients sampled
• 10 state AGs sent a letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook saying lax rules for safeguarding reproductive health data could harm patients or providers in the wake of the Supreme Court decision that overturned Roe v. Wade
• Amazon Web Services has launched a service that utilizes artificial intelligence, machine learning and other AWS and partner products and services to run IT-heavy bioinformatics workflows

Twitter: @JELagasse
Email the writer: [email protected]