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• Medicare Paid $47 Billion in Suspect Claims Last Year

  
  Big Government — Authority: 810
  From the Associated Press : The government paid more than $47 billion in questionable Medicare claims including medical treatment showing little relation to a patient’s condition, wasting taxpayer dollars at a rate nearly three times the previous year. Excerpts of a new federal report, obtained by ...
  8 hours ago

• Can Medicare Root Out Fraud? Not If the Past is Any Guide.

  
  John Goodman's Health Policy Blog — Authority: 565
  When the Medicare Part D drug benefit was established in 2006, the legislation contained provisions designed to combat fraud within the program. However, according to a new report from the Office of Inspector General , the government was slow to provide the necessary tools for the sleuths (Medicare antifraud ...
  3 days ago

• A Question

  
  Mom's Musings — Authority: 124
  I have a question that has been bothering me for some time now. In all the discussions about the cost of the democrats socialized medicine bill I have heard that most of the cost would be taken care of by weeding out the waste and fraud in Medicare. My question is this. If you know about waste and fraud why havent ...
  3 days ago

• Kansas City Internal Medicine doctors turn away Medicare enrollees, sparking ethics debate

  
  Motivational Speaker - Chuck Gallagher Business Ethics and Choices Expert — Authority: 111
  Here’s a question for you: If you had a service to provide — and someone asked you to provide it for free, or at a radically reduced price — would you do it? No, right? Now try this on for size: If you were a doctor, and someone asked you to provide a service at a rate that didn’t reimburse you for the total ...
  1 week ago

• Medical Equipment Company Owner Pleads Guilty to Medicare Fraud Scheme Involving Nutritional Supplies And “Arthritis Kits”

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 156
  The owner and operator of a Houston-area durable medical equipment (DME) company has pleaded guilty to defrauding the Medicare program. Noel Wayne Jhagroo, 47, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit health care fraud before U.S. District Judge Vanessa Gilmore in the U.S. District Court in Houston.  In his plea, ...
  1 week ago

• Medicare Fraud Anyone?

  
  Food for Thought... — Authority: 131
  Trying to tune in here. Come with me.Related posts: Visual Titillation Monday As many of the more insensitive-natured Americans have said, maybe... Farewell Summer ‘09 Courtesy of Andy Rooney Enough of the funny business.  It’s time to put your... Political Pulse: Health Care The health care debate ...
  1 week ago

• Health Care

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 165
  Just wondering why there hasnt been a bigger outcry against the Health Care Bill(s). We will all be on Medicaid/Medicare. Two programs that have been ripped off consistently over the years. Two programs that are administered by Blue Cross Blue Shield, a company that also insures a great many people in this country. ...
  2 weeks ago

• I-Team Uncovers Billions Lost To Medicare Fraud (Is this entrapment?) (Re: Acorn tapes)

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 165
  CBS4 I-Team Investigator Stephen Stock went undercover with other I-Team member to find suspect medical clinics operating in South Florida one step ahead of the law. The grainy, shaky undercover video tape shot by the CBS4 I-Team shows dozens of........... Original Article: Forum: News/Activism
  2 weeks ago

• Fixing Healthcare Versus Healthcare Overhaul

  
  Garnering Right Ideas — Authority: 426
  You don’t spend thousands of dollars on an engine overhaul when an oil change and tune-up are all that is needed. The American healthcare system is the best in the world (despite its problems real and politically generated). Two changes that could be written into law in three pages rather than 1990 (even our current ...
  2 weeks ago

• Medicare & Medicaid fraud far exceeds insurance company profits

  
  Independence Institute: Patient Power — Authority: 426
  A wonderful post by John Goodman : Competition from a “Public Plan”: What to Expect 60 Minutes : Medicare fraud is $60 billion a year GAO: Medicaid fraud was $33 billion in 2007 alone [page 32] Fortune Magazine: The top 14 insurers earned $8.6 billion last year These figures per Medicare ...
  2 weeks ago

• Medicare fraud far exceeds insurance company profits

  
  Independence Institute: Patient Power — Authority: 426
  A wonderful post by John Goodman : Competition from a “Public Plan”: What to Expect 60 Minutes : Medicare fraud is $60 billion a year GAO: Medicaid fraud was $33 billion in 2007 alone Fortune Magazine: The top 14 insurers earned $8.6 billion last year These figures per Medicare recipient: ...
  2 weeks ago

• Competition from a “Public Plan”: What to Expect

  
  John Goodman's Health Policy Blog — Authority: 565
  60 Minutes : Medicare fraud is $60 billion a year GAO: Medicaid fraud was $33 billion in 2007 alone Fortune Magazine: The top 14 insurers earned $8.6 billion last year
  2 weeks ago

• Yeah, The Public Option Is A Great Idea

  
  The New Ledger Chequer-Board — Authority: 143
  After all, what could possibly go wrong with a government-run health care plan ? Watch CBS News Videos Online Playing renaming games isn’t going to change the fact that a government-run health care plan is ripe for abuse.
  2 weeks ago

• Cool, lets just save that money and move forward

  
  Libertarian Blog — Authority: 139
  http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE59P0L320091027?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews It seems to me that this is where time and energy should be spent. Eliminate the waste, look at all regulations which contribute to waste and rescind the ones that do contribute to waste, reform fraud in Medicare, ...
  2 weeks ago

• And ObamaCare Would Help How, Exactly?

  
  Joust The Facts — Authority: 130
  Reuters has a report of analysis done by an arm of their parent company, Thompson Reuters, discussing problematic wasteful medical spending in the U.S. WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. healthcare system is just as wasteful as President Barack Obama says it is, and proposed reforms could be paid for by...
  2 weeks ago

• ‘60 Minutes’ Medicare Fraud: ‘Troubling questions about our government’s ability to manage a medical bureaucracy’

  
  The Lonely Conservative — Authority: 592
  NewsBusters has a partial transcript as well as Andy Rooney’s rant about the cost of medical bills. It’s easy to rip off the government. Private insurance companies have systems in place to detect fraud. Some people are profiting from government health care – crooks. And if ObummerCare is going to be paid for ...
  2 weeks ago

• ObamaCare To Increase Fraud And Abuse

  
  The Republican Temple — Authority: 515
  Jim sent this in: Last week, millions of Americans watched President Barack Obama continue to sell his national health care plan on news shows, talk shows and even the David Letterman Show.  Reporters during televised question and answer portions of Obama’s performances attempted to appear unbiased, but their ...
  3 weeks ago

• Medicare Part E; The NEW Public Option

  
  Garnering Right Ideas — Authority: 426
  Recently Harry Reid has suggested “Medicare Part E” would be a viable solution to providing coverage to all citizens. This attempt to pass a public option is just an attempt to get the fox in the hen house. How can Senator Reid suggest, with a straight face, adding to a program so rife with corruption that ...
  3 weeks ago

• Medicare Fraud Strike Force in Los Angeles Charges 20 in Health Care Fraud Cases

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 156
  Twenty defendants, most of them residing in the Los Angeles area, have been charged in seven cases for allegedly participating in Medicare fraud schemes that resulted in more than $26 million in fraudulent bills to the Medicare program. “Today’s indictments and arrests are important achievements in our ongoing ...
  3 weeks ago

• Bush Influence Lives On In the U.S. Department of Justice

  
  Legal Schnauzer — Authority: 427
  Is the George W. Bush era over in the U.S. Department of Justice? Is the corrupting influence of Karl Rove a thing of the past? Not by a long shot. Consider the corruption trial of Birmingham mayor Larry Langford, which started this week in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. The prosecution team consists of four lawyers--George ...
  3 weeks ago

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