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The reason dead people were paid $23 million by a federal program

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The reason dead people were paid $23 million by a federal program

Just because recipients were in the country illegally, sitting in jail or dead didn’t keep the federal government from giving them an estimated $190 million in health care payments, according to a government watchdog.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services mistakenly paid the money between 2009 and 2011, according to the Department of Health and Human Services’ inspector general.

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