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Kaiser Permanente to Pay $556 Million in Record Medicare Advantage Fraud Settlement

Kaiser Permanente to Pay $556 Million in Record Medicare Advantage Fraud Settlement

Fred Schulte
Published on: 07/02/2026

Kaiser Permanente will pay $556 million to settle federal claims it inflated diagnoses to increase Medicare Advantage payments, marking the largest settlement of its kind.

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