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Feds target doctors and nurses


Posted: May 15, 2013

89 people, including 14 doctors and nurses, were charged for their roles in various Medicare scams that bilked taxpayers of some $223 million through bogus charges, federal officials said Tuesday.

How dare they go after health care providers for committing health care fraud?  Next thing you know the IRS will be targeting tax evaders. 

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Response - Alice

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Interesting. Several years ago, I had a cardiac cath. The doctor saw me once and that was in the hospital only. Medicare was billed for visits both in the hospital and also in the doctor's office on that same day. However, when I made a written complaint to Medicare regarding payment for $200 for a in-office visit that never happened at any time, the response from Medicare went something like this, "There is documentation to show that the visit took place, so we have allowed the payment." I don't where or how the "documentation" came to exist, but the visit never happened. I was shocked that Medicare believed the doctor's printed word over my testimony of never having visited the doctor (or any of his partners) in his office. I guess someone at Medicare has finally concluded that doctors and nurses are just as capable of making false "documentation" as anyone else.

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