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Cost · Waste

Waste: fraud & abuse

Amount
$71.5B
per year
Per resident, per year
$210
÷ 341.1M people
Per household, per year
$541
÷ 132.2M households

How it is built

$59–84B

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

Problems this cost relates to

Sources: Shrank, Rogstad & Parekh, JAMA (2019)