Good (Long) Read on Health Care Costs

[D1B]

You know exactly how it is now.

Yeah, he has no idea how it is now because the problem has gotten WORSE. Obama administration claims 4.1 billion in medicare fruad savings? That isn't squat, considering there is 50-90 billion a yr in fraud.

"....Federal authorities boast of recovering $4.1 billion in 2011 from fraudulent activity, but again spent millions of dollars to recover it.

How much Medicare and Medicaid fraud is there? No one knows for sure. In 2010 the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report claiming to have identified $48 billion in what it termed as “improper payments.” That’s nearly 10 percent of the $500 billion in outlays for that year. However, others, including U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, suggest that there is an estimated $60 to $90 billion in fraud in Medicare and a similar amount for Medicaid.........

......Indeed, scamming Medicare and Medicaid is so lucrative that the Russian and Nigerian mobs have gotten involved. And one of the New York crime families has moved to Florida because defrauding Medicare is both more lucrative and less dangerous than some of the traditional organized crime activities.

And Medicaid is just as bad, or worse. New York City has been a huge problem for Medicaid with one former official suggesting that 40 percent of NYC’s Medicaid payments are “questionable. ” The New York Times, in a multi-story expose several years ago, reported that a Brooklyn dentist had filed 991 claims in one day......."
http://www.forbes.com/sites/merrillmatt ... illions/2/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Baldy is right. Fraud is still rampant.

No shit , dickhead. It's getting better though.

Thank you Barack Obama.

[BDKJMU]

Yeah, he has no idea how it is now because the problem has gotten WORSE. Obama administration claims 4.1 billion in medicare fruad savings? That isn't squat, considering there is 50-90 billion a yr in fraud.

"....Federal authorities boast of recovering $4.1 billion in 2011 from fraudulent activity, but again spent millions of dollars to recover it.

How much Medicare and Medicaid fraud is there? No one knows for sure. In 2010 the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report claiming to have identified $48 billion in what it termed as “improper payments.” That’s nearly 10 percent of the $500 billion in outlays for that year. However, others, including U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, suggest that there is an estimated $60 to $90 billion in fraud in Medicare and a similar amount for Medicaid.........

......Indeed, scamming Medicare and Medicaid is so lucrative that the Russian and Nigerian mobs have gotten involved. And one of the New York crime families has moved to Florida because defrauding Medicare is both more lucrative and less dangerous than some of the traditional organized crime activities.

And Medicaid is just as bad, or worse. New York City has been a huge problem for Medicaid with one former official suggesting that 40 percent of NYC’s Medicaid payments are “questionable. ” The New York Times, in a multi-story expose several years ago, reported that a Brooklyn dentist had filed 991 claims in one day......."
http://www.forbes.com/sites/merrillmatt ... illions/2/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Baldy is right. Fraud is still rampant.

No **** , dickhead. It's getting better though.

Thank you Barack Obama.

If you believe that then you truly are a dumba**.

[kalm]

I think we should appoint Rick Scott to investigate the fraud. A new Joe Kennedy!

Or have providers self report it.

[D1B]

No **** , dickhead. It's getting better though.

Thank you Barack Obama.

If you believe that then you truly are a dumba**.

4.1 Billion is a great start you conk fuckhead.

[Baldy]

I think we should appoint Rick Scott to investigate the fraud. A new Joe Kennedy!

Or have providers self report it.

If you reported over payments to Medicare or Medicaid eight years ago, they pretty much laughed you off the phone. I hope that part has gotten better.