Showing posts with label Medicare Fraud. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Medicare Fraud. Show all posts
12/27/13
Investigation Reveals Rampant Fraud by Privatized Hospice Groups | Common Dreams
Investigation Reveals Rampant Fraud by Privatized Hospice Groups | Common Dreams
"A Washington Post investigation into the world of hospice care published Thursday found that what was initially intended to be a peaceful end-of-life alternative led by religious and community organizations, has now evolved into a $17 billion for-profit industry ripe with scams and abuse.
Hospice care, which focuses on providing comfort to the terminally ill rather than finding a cure, is funded primarily by Medicare—which makes an estimated 85 to 90 percent of all payments to hospices."
"A Washington Post investigation into the world of hospice care published Thursday found that what was initially intended to be a peaceful end-of-life alternative led by religious and community organizations, has now evolved into a $17 billion for-profit industry ripe with scams and abuse.
Hospice care, which focuses on providing comfort to the terminally ill rather than finding a cure, is funded primarily by Medicare—which makes an estimated 85 to 90 percent of all payments to hospices."
6/7/13
The Other Reason Medicare Is Getting Stronger
The Other Reason Medicare Is Getting Stronger: The federal government banned almost 15,000 fraudsters from billing Medicare in just the last two years, new data from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) finds — over a two-fold increase from the two years before that. The crackdown is a consequence of Obamacare anti-fraud provisions and may be part of the reason [...]/p
2/23/13
1/25/13
How A Pharma Giant Used The ‘Fiscal Cliff’ Deal To Profit At The Expense Of Elderly Americans
How A Pharma Giant Used The ‘Fiscal Cliff’ Deal To Profit At The Expense Of Elderly Americans: Amgen Inc. — one of America’s largest biotech and pharmaceutical companies — has had a rough couple of months. In December, the firm was fined $762 million for illegally promoting drugs and defrauding Medicare. And now lawmakers from both sides of the aisle are looking to undo a little-noticed provision that Amgen successfully lobbied for [...]/p
10/6/12
U.S. Arrests 91 In Massive $430 Million Medicare Fraud Bust
U.S. Arrests 91 In Massive $430 Million Medicare Fraud Bust: The Obama Administration has taken Medicare billing fraud very seriously, setting up consumer-driven watchdog groups, issuing strict warnings to providers about gaming Medicare for personal gain, and enforcing strong fraud-prevention measures in Obamacare, all in an effort to curb unsavory (and illegal) practices such as “upcoding” that have the potential to devastate the medically needy by looting the safety-net program’s funds and driving up costs. The recent arrests go to show that the Administration has the bite to go with its bark.
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