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UnitedHealth Wins Ruling Over $2B in Alleged Medicare Advantage Overpayments - KFF Health News

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The Justice Department has been trying to get UnitedHealth Group to return billions of dollars in alleged Medicare Advantage overpayments.

A special master finds that the government failed to prove its case.

The DOJ alleges UnitedHealth overpaid more than $7.2 billion from 2009 through 2016 .

The decision comes as UnitedHealth faces renewed investigations into its handling of Medicare Advantage coding.