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Originally Posted by retiredguy123

I am not making it up. My mother was seen by a private practice doctor, who she never hired, in the hospital. The doctor followed her to every rehab nursing home she was sent to (5 facilities and the hospital). The doctor billed Medicare for every day for 4 months, 7 days per week. Medicare paid the doctor $80 per visit. For some visits, the doctor had to shake my mother to wake her up, and spent less than a minute in the room. It was months later that I received all of the Medicare receipts. I assume that the doctor got my mother's Medicare number from her chart or from my mother and just started billing it. We assumed that the doctor worked for the hospital because my mother never hired her. The doctor never treated my mother for anything or prescribed any medication. All she ever did was to ask how she was feeling.

There is a difference between rehab and nursing home. Both the physician and the facility are paid differently.