[retiredguy123]

Originally Posted by golfing eagles

Yep, about part for the course. I never had that joy, other than the usual 25 note chart audits. The one discrepancy they found resulted in them paying me an additional $45.00 because I under coded one visit. This is exactly my point----billions of dollars in real fraud and they spend a fortune investigating chump change amounts. I never understood why they didn't just start with the number 1 Medicare (non-institutional) biller and work their way down the list. Much cheaper and much more effective. (Of course that would require many less Federal employees and less spending, so......)

I agree. One reason I don't recommend calling the Medicare fraud department is that, the more calls they get, the more funding and employees they can justify, even if they don't do anything to reduce the fraud or to save taxpayer money. That is the way the system works.

[golfing eagles]

Originally Posted by retiredguy123

I agree. One reason I don't recommend calling the Medicare fraud department is that, the more calls they get, the more funding and employees they can justify, even if they don't do anything to reduce the fraud or to save taxpayer money. That is the way the system works.

Of course---the main goal of a bureaucracy is to grow itself. A department head doesn't get ahead by cutting personnel and budget and being efficient---he needs to have more people and money to be a bigger bureaucrat and then study for his GS-14 test, so he can move on to a bigger department and waste more money.