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When people talk about medicare fraud, what do they mean?
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Yukishiro1
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Registered: 2002-9-20 23:52:57
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When people talk about medicare fraud, what do they mean?
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Are they talking about doctors billing for services not actually performed? I have a hard time thinking of anything else off the top of my head.
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Tych2
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That plus also probably people faking injuries. Bad backs etc.
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Yes, both. It is a huge HUGE problem.
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doctors lose their license and potentially go to jail for billing for a procedure they didn't perform. the more realistic problem is doing a bunch of procedures that barely qualify as necessary.
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Yukishiro1
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Tych2 posted:
That plus also probably people faking injuries. Bad backs etc.
What's the incentive? The person doesn't get any money from that from medicare.
That sounds like disability fraud, not medicare fraud.
Or you mean they're faking for some other reason - probably disability - and medicare ends up paying for treatment for a fake injury? But how many people who get medicare are still working and have an incentive to try to pretend to be disabled?
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Ptilk
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Registered: 2002-2-13 14:52:58
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A lot of fraud in medicare is in the form of prescribing devices or services that are not actually required, then profiting from providing those devices or services.
Medical devices such as scooters, home oxygen services, physical therapy, even tests that are of no medical benefit, like checking PSA levels of a 97 year old man dying of a gunshot wound.
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Tych2
Title: Obama Appointed Outpost Czar
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Yukishiro1 posted:
Tych2 posted:
That plus also probably people faking injuries. Bad backs etc.
What's the incentive? The person doesn't get any money from that from medicare.
That sounds like disability fraud, not medicare fraud.
Its the first step in disability fraud. 
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Yukishiro1
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Seething199 posted:
doctors lose their license and potentially go to jail for billing for a procedure they didn't perform. the more realistic problem is doing a bunch of procedures that barely qualify as necessary.
That's sorta what I am thinking too. But that's not really fraud. And the same people who cry about medicare fraud also cry about death panels - but that's exactly what you'd need to stop that sort of fraud, isn't it? Someone telling the doctor "no you can't do that test because we don't think you need to."
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it's a thin line. there are definitely doctors that milk the system. but there are also doctors that practice defensive medicine to avoid getting sued. every ignorant clod comes to the doctor these days expecting an MRI, a CT, and god knows what else because they watch House. if you don't do all of this unnecessary crap for them and there's a bad outcome, you get sued whether it would have helped or not.
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Clackdor
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Registered: 2001-9-21 12:10:52
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http://www.medicare.gov/navigation/help-and-support/fraud-and-abuse/fraud-overview.aspx?AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1
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