Health officials poring over death records and other data have found that 189,000 people were improperly enrolled in subsidized Affordable Care Act coverage despite also being enrolled in a government insurance coverage program or being dead.
Officials with the Department of Health and Human Services and its Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) division reviewed data and identified the duplicative enrollments and enrollments of dead people, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and other officials said during a briefing in Washington on Oct. 14.
“We will follow the evidence, correct mistakes, and pursue fraud whenever we find it,” Kennedy said.
People pegged as being enrolled in Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, marketplace coverage and a government program such as Medicare are notified and given 30 days to provide evidence to resolve the allegations. The estates of people who come up as deceased are also given 30 days to respond….