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Originally Posted by Justputt
The DOJ would not be involved. You've been scammed. I've been involved in many cases where there were disputes with Medicare, including a full-blown RAC audit for every patient we treated with a specific kind of radiation therapy was called into question involving just under $1M. We won all but 1 case where the technique was used. Medicare interpretations are also inconsistent, and we've had to argue many times why a women's breast cancer couldn't be hypo-fractionated and depending on who does the peer-to-peer, sometimes we prevail and sometimes not, and when "not" the Medicare peer we find to be some pediatrician with zero radiotherapy training is just following a script! Medicare is the government, and they do screw up!
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Actually DOJ and CMS both investigate Medicare fraud and in this case TV has already admitted that they overbilled so I don’t see where the government is at fault here.