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Originally Posted by retiredguy123
In my opinion, the Medicare Fraud Department is a joke. It's purpose is a publicity measure to make people think that the Government is trying to eliminate fraud. The problem is that, there is so much fraud with Medicare, with totally inadequate resources to prosecute it, that reporting fraud to the Fraud Department is a waste of time. There are so many fraudulent Medicare claims that there is no need to have a Fraud Department. The money would be better spent hiring prosecutors who will actually prosecute and punish fraud.
Also, if Medicare said they had other complaints about the company, why did they send them $5,600 of taxpayer money?
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Trust me, if you worked as a provider of medical services, you would never consider their fraud department "a joke". I wonder on what basis people make posts like this.
I will state this, however----they spend way too much money to uncover the amount of fraud that they recover. I could find 10x as much fraud with 5% of their budget---it's very easy with the data they have. Just print out a list of non-institutional providers that bill Medicare/Medicaid the most and work the list top down. I assure you a solo private medical practice that bills Medicare 50 million/year or a small private lab that bills $100 million is committing fraud. At times it seems they work harder to recover $11.95 in overcharges.