{
  "id": 5176729,
  "title": "Medicare spent hundreds of millions of dollars on ineligible drugs, audit finds",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/02/medicare-spent-hundreds-of-millions-of-dollars-on-ineligible-drugs",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-09-02T16:30:35.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Healthcare Dive",
    "slug": "healthcare-dive",
    "url": "https://www.healthcaredive.com/news/medicare-spending-ineligible-otc-drugs-hhs-oig-audit/829454/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Shoddy CMS oversight is to blame, and the agency needs to do better, the HHS Office of the Inspector General said. The CMS concurred.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}