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@ anyone thinking our government is going to stop $65 billion of fraud and waste
Health Law Gives Medicare Fraud Fighters New Weapons
Fighting health care fraud in the U.S. can seem like an endless game of Whack-a-Mole. When government fraud squads crack down on one scheme, another pops up close by.
But the fraud squads that look for scams in the federal Medicare and Medicaid programs have some new weapons: tools and funding provided by the Affordable Care Act.
Medicare and Medicaid pay out some $750 billion each year to more than 1.5 million doctors, hospitals and medical suppliers. By many estimates, about $65 billion a year is lost to fraud.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2012...s?sc=17&f=1128
Agreed on #1.
Disagree on #2.
the Fed govt, outside of the VA, isn't providing healthcare, isn't taking over health care, so why do you repeat that LIE?
The IRS claims a $4.3 collected for $1 invested in enforcement.
Why wouldn't Medicare/Medicaid fraud prevention/chasing be in the same range, at least?
The old way of "pay-then-chase" is being phased out should help.
“What the Affordable Care Act does and what CMS, I think, is doing now is really a shift of focus of the ‘pay and chase’ mentality,” said Saccoccio. “[That's] where the fraud is committed, you’ve paid the money. Now you have to go out and get it back and prosecute the individual.”
“Pay and chase” has given way to a prevention of fraud model
http://gantdaily.com/2012/08/21/medi...d-new-weapons/
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