Medicare Fraud Cost

Shell Games: Phantom Firms Bleed Millions From Medicare

www.reuters.com | Posted 12.23.2011

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MIAMI/ATLANTA (Reuters) - By the time authorities busted a fake AIDS clinic in Miami, it had bilked Medicare of more than $4.5 million. Still, the man...

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Problems Persist With Contractors Paid To Ferret Out Medicare Fraud

AP | KELLI KENNEDY | Posted 01.13.2012

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MIAMI — Contractors paid tens of millions of taxpayer dollars to detect fraudulent Medicare claims are using inaccurate and inconsistent data th...

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Looking For Waste in the Health Care System? Try Anywher

Francine Hardaway | Posted 11.17.2011

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How much of our rising health care costs comes from fraud in the health care system by players who know how to game it for their own benefit?

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Medicare Paid $47 Billion In Suspect Claims, According To HHS

AP | HOPE YEN | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — The government paid more than $47 billion in questionable Medicare claims including medical treatment showing little relation to a ...

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