Medicare Fraud 101

Archive for September, 2006

Medicare Recipient Gets $18,000 Bill for Services Not Rendered Including Infusion Therapy

A sharp Medicare beneficiary says that Medicare was billed $24,653 and paid $17,956 for services not provided. The billings included 15 office visits and $1,000 injections for HIV and AIDS patients; neither of which the beneficiary needed or received. As a matter of fact, he had never been to the West Miami medical center that billed Medicare for services. According to the newspaper article, federal investigators have said that the most expensive and widespread Medicare fraud in South Florida is infusion therapy for persons with HIV and AIDS. For more information click here.

CMS Administrator Mark McClellan Is Leaving to Join Think Tank

In five weeks, CMS Administrator Mark McClellan is going to leave and focus on improving the health care system in the United States. McClellan is leaving a post he held since March 2004. Previously he was the FDA Commissioner from 2002 through 2004. As part of his job McClellan oversees a federal budget of approximately $600 billion.  Several possible successors are being considered for the post.

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