Health care reform news: 10/14/2010
According to the Wall Street Journal’s news hub, a Florida judge ruled that the lawsuit from by 20 states challenging the constitutionality of the health care bill that requires that effective 2014 everyone must carry health insurance would move on.
Medicare crackdown news: 10/14/2010
According to NPR’s Morning Edition program, a dozen people in New York were charged for committing Medicare Fraud. The FBI is cracking down on Medicare fraud around the country prosecute doctors and patient bleeding the Medicare fund.
Recently in Brooklyn, New York, the FBI arrested three doctors for submitting false claims to Medicare; how dumb are these doctors really, why did not think performing 85 hemorrhoidectomies on one patient in 20 months will raise a red flag?
These scammers would pay patients for allowing them to submit false claim to Medicare, and because of such frauds, which is prevalent though out the country, the Medicare program has lost billons.
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