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The problem is everywhere. My experience was with TV Health, including their specialty clinic. My husband has an implanted heart monitor that is a continuous EKG reading, 24 hrs/day. Once a month this report is sent to the Cardiology Clinic. It was implanted in 2016 and every month from July 2016 - March 2022 the office billed Medicare and Tricare For Life two bills for $45.00 each, one for reading the report and one for office visit to give us report. We never had the office visit. The report was available on our patient portal. Funniest part is.... we left The Villages in August of 2020 to be nearer family in NC. We did not get established with a cardiologist here in NC due to Covid, etc until March of 2022, so the reports continued to go through the Specialty Clinic in TV. For 19 months Medicare/TFL continued to pay $90.00/month for a patient who no longer lived near there. What's even funnier.... the cardiologist here has billed nothing for the report. He laughed and said ":why would I bill Medicare for reading a report"? He says he reads the report and if there is a problem, he will call for us to come in for office visit. And "no", I have not reported it to Medicare. If they are too inept to pick up on the fact that I changed our address in August of 2020 that hope is there? And further, I have reported other issues to Medicare and the answer was, it would cost more to investigate it than just pay it....