Comments on: Medicare Fraud: A $60 Billion Crime
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- Maybe I am missing something here. Has anyone checked to see if these list of names and info actually are coming from there at Medicare. Someone there sells these list and then they seem to not want to check on the charge that come in. Things don't smell right there at Medicare itself....They wait for too long to send out an alarm and that makes me wonder in itself. Most places are the opposite, they deny it then check. Not the other way around. So I say again, check there at Medicare for the crooks too.
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- I've seen comments on other websites questioning the accuracy of this 60 Minutes report. However, since the report was done, the Department of Health and Human Services has completed a partial audit of its Medicare medical benefit disbursements. I just took a look through Section III of the FY 2009 HHS Agency Financial Report (http://www.hhs.gov/afr/2009sectiii-oai.pdf). The chart on page III-12 states that Medicare had an erroneous payment rate of 7.8% or $24,100M under its Fee-For-Service (FFS) and 15.4% or $12,010M under its Medicare Choice (MC) plans. HHS still hasn't reported erroneous payments under its Drug plans, because it's still in the process of implementing the audit program for it. That's 8.49% of the $425,521M total cost of Medicare in FY 2009 for those two plans alone. And it gets even worse. The note attached to the erroneous payments under the FFS plan states that a stricter review by HHS reflected an error rate of 12.4% or $35,400M. This figure wasn't reported because the audit wasn't extensive enough at the time of the report to be compliant with HHS' reporting requirements. If we assume this figure to be more accurate, the total amount of erroneous Medicare medical benefit payments reported by HHS so far (i.e., we're still waiting for the audit of its Drug plan) is $47,410M, which is 11.14% of the total cost of Medicare in FY 2009!
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- A Sympathic Terrorist would find this a great source to fund Al Quaeda.
A huge VICTORY for our enemies to Celebrate, using OUR money to kill U.S. with!!! - Reply to this comment
- I totally agree, I've been reporting a gastroenterologist in CT and our government could care less, I've contacted the US Department of Justice, the States Attorney General's office, Medicare, Office of Inspector General and they have done nothing. Now, they are pushing this new healthcare bill, well WAKE UP! Review the hospitals and physicians performing the fraud, recoup their money we wouldn't have this problem! Why isn't the media picking this up!
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- I have been trying to alert Medicare to a case of fraud and they could care less!The Attorney Generals office isn't interest either.All i get is "smoke and mirrors" and"you need to contact this agency" instead of trying to fix the issue!!It seeme there is a LICENSE TO STEAL once you get involved as a vendor with MEDICARE!THE HOSPITAL I AM TRYING TO REPORT WAS FOUND GUILTY OF FRAUD,FINED OVER A MILLION DOLLARS IN 2001 FOR THE SAME ISSUES I HAVE,BUT NOW IN 2009 THEY'RE BACK IN BUSINESS SCREWING PEOPLE AGAIN!!!
No wonder the country is going "down the dumper"...none of the bureaucrats care....bet some pockets are getting lined!!!I WASH I WAS 20 YRS. OLD AGAIN,I'DE GET OUT OF THE USA IN A HEARTBEAT!!
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- The scammers are so busted! Louisiana Senior Medicare Patrol is already signing volunteers up to find the bad guys and has had calls that are under investigation alreadyy...you can sign up at www.stopmedicarefraudla.org
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- A little common sense and incentive is all it would take to put a huge dent into Medicare Fraud, just as it would have done for stopping illegal immigration. Implement new checks before payments are made, provide very harsh criminal penalities, increase dedicated staff to ferret out fraud, and encourage the public to report and get rewards.
The answer is that Congress is being influenced by the beneficiaries such as the Mafia, Russian/Jewish mob and big business to do nothing. - Reply to this comment
- Widespread Fraud and corruption starts with the Judiciay members taking full control of our government who is to protect the people! The 60 minute report on Heath care fraud is the tip of the ice berg.
"The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny" (James Madison, Federalist No. 48, Feb. 1, 1788).
Think about how extensive this could be. Every aspect of our country is being preyed on by one group of people. If we lived back in the 1700s we would have a tea party and take up arms to fightback. Today we are singled out and surpressed by the judicial system.
For the record I submmitted testimony to the Senate Judiciary for effective stratigies against health care fraud on Oct.28, 2009. If you think health care fraud is bad look deeper at this issue and these numbers. All our propsed laws have to go past the U.S. Senate committee on the Judiciary and guess who controls it. This might be a good time to get to get pissed.
United States Senate Committee on the Judciary is made up of 19 total members of which 13 are lawyers and 6 not lawyers the american people are being screwed! This effectively gives total control of our government to one group of people the judicial members. They currently control all branches 1) executive branch " controlled by Lawyer" 2) legislative branch controlled by lawyers "committee on the Judiciary controlled by 13 lawyer 3) Judiciary "All legal professionals" No wonder why we have such wide spread corruption and fraud there is no one to to protect the people!!! Less than 1% of attorneys are ever prosicuted for misconduct or crimes they committ placing them above our laws.
We the people need protection and oversight of our Judicial Branch members to truly stop corruption and fraud.
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- Mr. Holder, if the bad guys are stealing $60B from us, don't you think we should go ahead and put a stop to it? Let's see, I'll use some Alabama math to help you. We can hire ten thousand sharp people at a $100K each at a cost of $1B to save $59B of our tax dollars. If I can figure this much out, I wonder why all the people in the government cannot. I guess the light switch in this case is Obama's health care public option. All the problems already known cannot be fixed until we get a public option health law. ?????
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- ...and we want these fools(gov.) to run our health care...god help us.
Imagine that fraud!!!! - Reply to this comment
