Medicare fraud included phantom services, equipment

By Laurel Adams

A sampling of Medicare providers who were overpaid by $206 million in 2007-08 showed some billed the government for phantom services or for

Excerpts from this story referencing "California":

"… d due to suspected fraud came from just four states: Florida, Puerto Rico, California, and Michigan. Over half of the providers were located in U.S. Attorney di …"

Grassley, Wyden introduce bill to make Medicare data public

By Joe Eaton

New bill on Medicare data responds to Center reporting

Excerpts from this story referencing "Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services":

"… hich together acquired a limited portion of Medicare billing data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, a component of HHS.“Medicare is a $500 billion program with billions of …"

Senators Grassley, Wyden push to make Medicare billing data public

By Joe Eaton and David Donald

Republican Sen. Charles Grassley of Iowa introduced a bill today that would make available to the public data on Medicare billing by doctors

Excerpts from this story referencing "Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services":

"… pays individual doctors.In 2009, the Center for Public Integrity sued the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for access to Medicare billing data. Partnering with The Wall Street Journ …"

"… al Daniel Levinson and Peter Budetti, director of program integrity at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, if they would support a bill to open Medicare billing data to the public. …"

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GAO says Medicare regulator followed the rules in Humana smackdown

By Joe Eaton

The Government Accountability Office is siding with Medicare administrators in a dispute with Humana Inc.— the nation’s largest private heal

Excerpts from this story referencing "Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services":

"… ed in Medicare Advantage plans.But when Medicare’s oversight agency, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), caught wind of Humana’s mailings, the agency told the insurer to …"

Medicaid to get tougher on drug makers’ price reporting

By Julie Vorman

The federal overseer of Medicaid plans to crack down on drug makers that fail to submit complete monthly and quarterly price information for

Excerpts from this story referencing "Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services":

"… eir required quarterly reports of average manufacturer prices (AMP) to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the inspector general said in a new report. They were even worse with mon …"

"… a play such a critical role in government payments for prescription drugs, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services must ensure that action is taken against noncompliant manufacturers,” th …"

By 2020, 90 cents of every dollar will go to entitlements and debt interest

By Laurel Adams

Long-term simulations of government debt offer a cold, harsh look at the federal economic situation, according to the Government Accountabil

Excerpts from this story referencing "Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services":

"… provisions to control the growth of health care costs, but the CBO and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services have expressed concern about whether these cost-control measures are susta …"

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After banned from Medicare, podiatrist bills $1M for fake care, including double-amputee's feet

By Ben Wieder

Maryland podiatrist banned from Medicare in 2007 admits to more fraud under Medicare Advantage

Unsustainable Medicare spending

By The Center for Public Integrity

According to projections by the Congressional Budget Office, Medicare spending is expected to jump from 4 percent of GDP

Excerpts from this story referencing "Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services":

"… July to shelve the effort. Jeff Nelligan, director of media affairs at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, told the Center that the Bush administration has tried hard to control th …"

Medicare fraud out of control

By The Center for Public Integrity

Medicare fraud runs rampant but no government crackdown yet, despite bipartisan support

Excerpts from this story referencing "Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services":

"… incompetent,” he told The New York Times in August. A spokesman for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services at HHS put the blame on Congress: “Over the past four years, the adminis …"

Senators want more aggressive action to curb rampant Medicare fraud

By Joe Eaton

Hatch, Coburn, says federal health program for the elderly isn't weeding out scamsters, bad doctors

Excerpts from this story referencing "Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services":

"… News early this year.In the letter to Donald Berwick, administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, and Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Oklahoma, wrote th …"

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