Medicare FFS improper payments (7.7% rate)

Amount

$53.2B

per year

Per resident, per year

$156

÷ 341.1M people

Per household, per year

$402

÷ 132.2M households

How it is built

7.7% × Medicare hospital and physician spending (illustrative; CMS reports about $31B for FFS)

Part of: Spread across national spending (overlapping estimates; do not add)