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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: “One of the major problems is upcoding and it's just rampant…”

Featuring: Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Independent | United States Secretary of Health and Human Services | National

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Published | Video Starts at 27:29

People have Medicare Advantage are better off, are healthier, they're getting treated better, they're more compliant and people who are getting cost or fee for cost programs. One of the other problems is that One of the major problems is upcoding and it's just rampant fraud throughout the system. as you point out. And we are fixing that now for the first time. And I can tell you that we're already seeing some change in the discrepancy. (27:29–27:35)

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Asserts that upcoding is a significant issue and there is rampant fraud in the Medicare system.

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