News For: medicare Part DDoctors Indicted For Alleged Medicare Fraud Seven doctors have been implicated in a complex scheme to steal money from Medicare by billing unnecessary procedures to elderly people and attributing medical costs to dead patients. Authorities say part of the scheme was run out of a Sacramento-area office. Probe: Medicare paid billions in suspect claims The government paid more than $1 billion in questionable Medicare claims for medical supplies that showed little relation to a patient's condition, including blood glucose strips for sexual impotence and special diabetic shoes for leg amputees, congressional investigators say. Medicare Part B Premiums In 2009 Will Not Increase For Most Beneficiaries CMS on Friday announced that monthly outpatient care premiums for about 95% of Medicare recipients will remain at $96.40 in 2009, the San Francisco Chronicle reports Colliver, San Francisco Chronicle, 9/20. The premium covers a portion of the costs of physician services, home health care and certain durable medical equipment. Two admit roles in Medicare fraud scheme in area The owners of a Newark-based medical services company on Tuesday pleaded guilty to a Medicare fraud scheme that, in part, used residents of apartments in Neptune and Red Bank to scam the federal government out of more than $100,000. Two admit to $100,000 Medicare fraud scheme The owners of a Newark-based medical services company this morning pleaded guilty to a Medicare fraud scheme that, in part, used apartment residents in Neptune and Red Bank to scam the federal government out of more than $100,000. Shoes for amputees? Medicare waste revealed The government paid more than $1 billion in questionable Medicare claims for medical supplies that showed little relation to a patient's condition. NIB lifts profit outlook after Medicare levy rejection Health insurer NIB has lifted its profit outlook in light of the Senate's rejection of changes to the Medicare levy surcharge. Probe: Medicare paid billions in suspect claims The government paid more than $1 billion in questionable Medicare claims for medical supplies that showed little relation to a patient's condition, including blood glucose strips for sexual impotence and special diabetic shoes for leg amputees, congressional... Report: Medicare spending billions on suspicious claims Medicare pays millions each year for medical supplies such as walkers and glucose test strips for patients who don't appear to need them, congressional investigators say in a report out today. Medicare criticized for equipment pay-outs WASHINGTON, Sept. 24 UPI -- Medicare is paying out millions of dollars each year on medical equipment for U.S. patients whose diagnoses don't call for it, investigators say. |


