News For: Nc Prenatal medicareProbe: 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. 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. 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. 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. Mercy plans around Medicare cut Beginning Oct. 1, Medicare and Medicaid will no longer pay for medical care if patients get an infection while they're being treated at a hospital. 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... Medicare spending criticized TODAY IN BUSINESS Medicare spending criticizedWASHINGTON ��� 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. Billions more in taxpayer dollars may have been wasted over ... 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. 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. Billions more in taxpayer dollars may have been wasted over the last decade because the government-run health program ... |


