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Kaiser Permanente Affiliates to Pay $556 Million to Settle Medicare Advantage Upcoding Case

The deal resolves DOJ claims of post‑visit addenda that inflated risk scores through data‑mining, marking the largest recovery to date in Medicare Advantage risk adjustment.