Medicaid improper payments totaled $31.1 billion in FY2024, and new research from the Hern Policy Institute (HPI) finds that the scale of those errors is equivalent to the annual workload of roughly 10,000 to 25,000 physicians.
The report, Medicaid Fraud & Improper Payments in Context, translates federal improper payment estimates into health system capacity equivalents, including physician visits, prescriptions and Medicaid enrollment levels.
