anchor: Improper payments include inadvertent errors, such as duplicate payments and miscalculations; payments for unsupported or inadequately supported claims; payments for services not rendered; payments to ineligible beneficiaries; and payments resulting from outright fraud and abuse by program participants and/or federal employees.
positive: Incorrect or improper payments have inadvertent errors included.
negative: Improper payments however don't include payments to ineligible beneficiaries.