"Authorities recovered $4 billion in health care fraud judgments last year - a record high up 50 percent from 2009 - according to a new report."
So over a two year period they've recovered $6B.....where did that money go?
"Authorities have long said the solution to solving the nation's estimated $60 billion to $90 billion a year Medicare fraud problem lies in vigorously screening providers.....The agency gets roughly 18,000 applications a month to become Medicare providers."
How do you "vigorously" screen 18,000 applications a month? And for how long has this been a "$60-90B" a year fraud problem?
"Assistant FBI director Kevin Perkins also acknowledged the mob's involvement in Medicare fraud Monday and said the FBI has ramped up efforts to assist in task forces and undercover investigations. The agency investigated a record 2,600 Medicare fraud cases in 2010 and helped dismantle more than 60 fraudulent companies."
So 2,600 fraud cases were investigated, 18k new applications every month, $60-90B a year in fraud waste and abuse...... Clean this stuff up and you've paid for universal healthcare.
MarineVet64 - You're jumping on the wrong bandwagon, I didn't say anything even remotely politically partisan (which of course you always do) - and TARP has absolutely nothing to do with the government running an efficient program and stopping the fraud.
BRING BACK THE LIFE AT HARD LABOR SENTENCE AND A BUNCH OF THIS WILL STOP. WHY DO WE TREAT TERRORIST WITH TORTURE BEFORE TRIAL AND FEED AND SHELTER AMERICANS WHO TERRORIZE THE TAX PAYER?
Medicare and Medicaid fraud has bee rampant for years. This is another example of how inept our government is. Now they want to CUT medicare. It is thier fault the the Medicare system APPEARS to be costly. It is not. CRIME is COSTLY. Futhermore, policing the medicare and medicaid should not be part of a healthcare bill. (the healthcare bill should not exist) It should be part of the DOJ. It is criminal. REPEAL the AFORDABLE HEALTHCARE ACT. It is not.
There is a lot of Medicare fraud here in Illinois. I have been in the medical field for many years, am retired now, but it used to make me made that people drove new cars, had fancy expensive clothes and jewelry, cellphones, the kids were dressed in expensive clothes, shoes. All of these people were on Medicaid. Most we not married to the children's father or mother. Many had never had a job. Well, to me the $1 Buck stops here. Take these people off the medicaid rolls, the food stamp program (aka as free drug money) and any other government program. Let their churches, the family and their neighbors take care of them and then maybe they can get up the guts to Get A Job. People come to Illinois from other states because the rules are so lacks..no wonder our state is bankrupt. I wish I could get out of here but this is where my husband was born and he is ill so here I am and here I will be until I can get out of Illinois.
Wow,the crooked ins industry,with its overseas "reward" method of paying a % of denied claims must be 100x greater than 4 billion-God save US healthcare...
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So over a two year period they've recovered $6B.....where did that money go?
"Authorities have long said the solution to solving the nation's estimated $60 billion to $90 billion a year Medicare fraud problem lies in vigorously screening providers.....The agency gets roughly 18,000 applications a month to become Medicare providers."
How do you "vigorously" screen 18,000 applications a month? And for how long has this been a "$60-90B" a year fraud problem?
"Assistant FBI director Kevin Perkins also acknowledged the mob's involvement in Medicare fraud Monday and said the FBI has ramped up efforts to assist in task forces and undercover investigations. The agency investigated a record 2,600 Medicare fraud cases in 2010 and helped dismantle more than 60 fraudulent companies."
So 2,600 fraud cases were investigated, 18k new applications every month, $60-90B a year in fraud waste and abuse...... Clean this stuff up and you've paid for universal healthcare.