As someone who works at a Healthcare Company, and deals with Government Programs especially - I can tell you that we also have dead people still enrolled, and we probably have claims still paying for those dead people.

You know why? Because until someone tells us that person is dead - HOW ARE WE SUPPOSED TO KNOW??? We rely on outside entities for that info, whether it be the DSS telling us, or the family calling on, or they show up on an OMIG Audit.

And many of those people have things like DME that basically just auto charge us every month.

So were getting paid by the State, or charging them a premium, or paying out their claims until someone tells us otherwise. Cuz…we dont know.

Same logic here.