| 31. | Speth did not say why the overpayments were made.
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| 32. | Spokespersons for the hospitals said hospital officials had been unaware of the overpayments.
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| 33. | Sometimes we have overpayments, sometimes we have underpayments.
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| 34. | This is the reason for most of the overpayments.
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| 35. | The reduced payments are to retroactively reflect those overpayments.
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| 36. | Some of these gargantuan overpayments reflect outright fraud.
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| 37. | Social Security has procedures in place allowing citizens to have overpayments reconsidered or waived.
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| 38. | In 1998 there were $ 1.6 billion in Supplemental Security Income overpayments.
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| 39. | $670 million in overpayments to defense contractors.
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| 40. | One supervisor allegedly told an employee to hide a $ 465, 000 overpayment.
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