Coding Errors Cost Millions in Overpayments

How an 8-legged Pest Cost Mazda Millions

Unemployment Insurance Overpayments and Underpayments

In addition, the Department is now implementing a Denied Claims Accuracy (DCA) program to track the extent to which UI claims are incorrectly (or wrongfully) denied and therefore result in underpayments. To date, the only information on the extent of underpayments from incorrectly denied claims comes from a pilot study that the Department conducted with the cooperation of five states in 1997-98...

Color coding to reduce errors.

Neuronal coding of prediction errors.

Associative learning enables animals to anticipate the occurrence of important outcomes. Learning occurs when the actual outcome differs from the predicted outcome, resulting in a prediction error. Neurons in several brain structures appear to code prediction errors in relation to rewards, punishments, external stimuli, and behavioral reactions. In one form, dopamine neurons, norepinephrine neu...

Recovery of Medicare and Medicaid overpayments in bankruptcy.

Mr. Roest argues in favor of the Third Circuit's decision in University Medical Center v. Sullivan to advance the proposition that the Doctrine of Recoupment should be applied narrowly in health care bankruptcy cases. The article begins by introducing key provisions of the Medicare Act and Bankruptcy Code, and by distinguishing between recoupment and setoff. The article then focuses on the Thir...