"… at $48 billion through 2013 (GAO).* Congress annually overrides scheduled Medicare cuts in the physician fee schedule known as the “sustainable growth rate …"

"… able growth rate” system as the volume of physician services provided to Medicare patients grows at more than double the rate allows by the SGR (Congression …"

"… one with a little information can call in a prescription.” …"

"… son sentence, according to federal court records, for conspiracy to commit Medicare fraud.In October, Renier Vicente Rodriguez Fleitas, 60, owner of Pirifer P …"

"… d criminals who used his name to set up the pharmacy and divert money from Medicare.“He was given rent and food to sign some documents to be president of th …"

"… i said, adding that the organizers also paid for a plane ticket to Cuba.By Medicare fraud standards, the payout to the Hialeah pharmacy was a tiny drop in a m …"

"… s not mean that there might not be these problems still.” …"

"… it physician ID numbers to health plans that contract with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to provide Medicare Part D prescription drug b …"

"… tract with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to provide Medicare Part D prescription drug benefits. But the Office of Inspector General for …"

"… s Department says the CMS lacks a system to verify the ID numbers.In 2007, Medicare Part D plans paid pharmacies $1.2 billion for 18 million prescription drug …"

"… me Congress, a battle over a program designed to help cut soaring rates of Medicare overpayment and fraud is playing out unnoticed on the sidelines.The disput …"

"… stigators have long complained that the equipment business was a hotbed of Medicare abuse. A competitive bidding program for durable medical equipment finally …"

"… — that the federal government paid more than $47 billion in questionable Medicare claims in fiscal year 2009, and just as President Obama prepares to sign a …"

"… order cracking down on improper payments by a variety of federal programs, Medicare prominently among them.The roots of the fight over durable medical equipme …"

"… emocrat and one Republican – have introduced legislation that would open Medicare billing records from doctors and other health providers to increased publi …"

"… tors and other health providers to increased public and media scrutiny.The Medicare Data Access for Transparency and Accountability Act, was introduced Thursd …"

"… Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to create a free searchable Medicare payment database the public can use to track billing by health care provid …"

"… use to track billing by health care providers.The bill also clarifies that Medicare payments to doctors and medical suppliers would not be exempt from provisi …"

"… wa introduced a bill today that would make available to the public data on Medicare billing by doctors and other health care providers, a portion of which is …"

"… and The Wall Street Journal, which have been using limited portions of the Medicare data to expose waste, fraud, and abuse in the program.Speaking today at a …"

"… e Finance Committee hearing on health care fraud prevention, Grassley said Medicare payments to doctors and other providers should be just as available as sta …"

"… h are posted on the government website USA.gov."A taxpayer dollar spent on Medicare isn't any different than the public's right to know about a taxpayer dolla …"

"… icial line at the Department of Justice is that investigators are battling Medicare and Medicaid fraud like never before. But the most recent data on the agen …"

"… forts at fighting health care crooks. Fraud and abuse has long hobbled the Medicare program, by some estimates siphoning off as much as 20 percent of the prog …"

"… Lauderdale after Hurricane Katrina may not have been spent properly. (OIG) …"

"… ecting two years’ worth of data that private prescription drug plans and Medicare Advantage plans are required to submit to the Centers for Medicare and Med …"

"… ans and Medicare Advantage plans are required to submit to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), the agency that administrators for the health …"

"… e watchdog found accounted for less than one-tenth of a percent of overall Medicare drug costs, CMS disputed the report’s findings and recommendations.“We …"

"… am Finance Initiative). …"

"… raged, a new GAO report says Humana sent letters to 930,000 members of its Medicare Advantage plan saying the proposal before Congress could curtail their ben …"

"… members to contact members of Congress and ask them to protect funding for Medicare Advantage, a federal health insurance alternative to Medicare’s traditio …"

"… funding for Medicare Advantage, a federal health insurance alternative to Medicare’s traditional fee-for-service program. About 11 million, or one in four …"

"… said. The AMA helped kill a $300 yearly fee for doctors who participate in Medicare or Medicaid, a tax on cosmetic surgery, five percent Medicare payment cuts …"

"… rticipate in Medicare or Medicaid, a tax on cosmetic surgery, five percent Medicare payment cuts to the top 10 percent of Medicare billers, and Medicare payme …"

"… metic surgery, five percent Medicare payment cuts to the top 10 percent of Medicare billers, and Medicare payment cuts for primary care physicians. Each was i …"

"… rcent Medicare payment cuts to the top 10 percent of Medicare billers, and Medicare payment cuts for primary care physicians. Each was included in the initial …"