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It shouldn't be "fraud" when there is a simple coding error- Everyone can probably agree on that. By the same token, they SHOULD care about accuracy and not overpay due to errors, and unfortunately, there is a line somewhere where "simple coding errors" do become actual fraud. In programs as large as the Medicare/Medicaid programs are, there is a significant amount of actual fraud and much of it goes undiscovered. One way to discourage others from thinking about committing fraud is essentially to make Draconian examples of those who mess up. "Kill one, terrorize a thousand"....In a program that large, it's about their only hope of compliance. View Quote Certainly there is fraud and it should be punished, however, the way the do it now is downright evil. You're not going to be "investigated for fraud" by law enforcement agents. Medicare (thanks to Obama) contracts out your "investigation" to a private for profit company who is paid by a percentage of how much they can squeeze out of you. They come in, audit your charts and look for the tiniest of coding errors. Let's say they sample 100 charts. Let's say that they fine ONE coding error. That's "fraud" and they take the money back from you and give you a $10,000 dollar fine on top of that. Then, they figure out how many medicare patient visits your practice sees in a year, going back 5 years. Let's say your practice has about a 1000 medicare visits in a year (not that large, a 5 doc practice could easily reach those numbers). So that's 5000 medicare visits the last 5 years. The extrapolate your one case of "fraud" to a "fraudulent billing rate" of 1% and then determine that with a 1% fraud rate, you MUST have fraudulently billed 1% of those 5000 visits in the last 5 years for an extrapolated 50 counts of fraud that carry a 10,000 dollar fine each. They slap a $500,000 fine on the doctor, ruining him. Good people have killed themselves after such a fiasco. |
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The entire medical industry engaged in fraud, racketeering, price fixing, and monopolistic pricing. Wake me up when they start prosecuting all of that. Anti-trust laws are violated by all of them. View Quote Not to mention that current medical pricing is subsidizing the people without insurance, those that don't pay, medication costs to Europe, etc. That's why you see $200 things of abd pads on bills. Because Juan Valdez with no insurance, or Shaquanisha, or Billy Bob don't pay, don't have coverage, etc, so their bills get rolled into everyone else's to keep the lights on. Doesn't help that the .gov takes 4-12 months to pay as well. So while you are right on the price fixing, the massive chunk of that blame lies on the shoulders of good ol' Uncle Sugar. Can't charge less than what they'd accept for a service after all. |
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Reads like 'pissed into ocean, caused coastal flooding'. Financially it'll provide the same boom as Joe Blow finding $0.25 on street. In reality, if politicians see 1.6 billion saved - they'll spend 10.6 billion. Want to color me impressed? Get some of the American trillions looted by the banks and con-gressmen. While it's a lot to one man, a billion ain't shit when it took a $999 million in man hours to get it and we're still 20 trillion in debt. View Quote |
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Slight problem with your logic. 8+ year investigation. So unless Trump is lending out his time machine, it's not exactly a Sessions thing. Just landed in his lap. A billion + in fraud is still a nice penny though. View Quote |
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You're not exactly wrong, but dismissing the billion as being trivial is the same attitude politicians have and IS exactly why the country is in the shitter... View Quote |
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Dog and pony show. They nabbed 412 suspects in what is possibly the most fraud ridden industry in America, and now they parade themselves around and want pats on the back. That's some mighty fine police work. Maybe next month they can wrangle up a few frauds using their welfare monies to buy drugs. Think it's doable? View Quote |
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The entire medical industry engaged in fraud, racketeering, price fixing, and monopolistic pricing. Wake me up when they start prosecuting all of that. Anti-trust laws are violated by all of them. View Quote |
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The government shouldn't be doing draconian things that destroy people just to make a point. The Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution states: “Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.” Certainly there is fraud and it should be punished, however, the way the do it now is downright evil. You're not going to be "investigated for fraud" by law enforcement agents. Medicare (thanks to Obama) contracts out your "investigation" to a private for profit company who is paid by a percentage of how much they can squeeze out of you. They come in, audit your charts and look for the tiniest of coding errors. Let's say they sample 100 charts. Let's say that they fine ONE coding error. That's "fraud" and they take the money back from you and give you a $10,000 dollar fine on top of that. Then, they figure out how many medicare patient visits your practice sees in a year, going back 5 years. Let's say your practice has about a 1000 medicare visits in a year (not that large, a 5 doc practice could easily reach those numbers). So that's 5000 medicare visits the last 5 years. The extrapolate your one case of "fraud" to a "fraudulent billing rate" of 1% and then determine that with a 1% fraud rate, you MUST have fraudulently billed 1% of those 5000 visits in the last 5 years for an extrapolated 50 counts of fraud that carry a 10,000 dollar fine each. They slap a $500,000 fine on the doctor, ruining him. Good people have killed themselves after such a fiasco. View Quote |
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He should arrest congress for theft View Quote Start at the top. "While today is a historic day, the Department's work is not finished. In fact, it is just beginning. We will continue to find, arrest, prosecute, convict, and incarcerate fraudsters and drug dealers wherever they are. We will use every tool we have to stop criminals from exploiting vulnerable people and stealing our hard-earned tax dollars. We are continuing to work hard to develop even more techniques to identify and prosecute wrongdoers. We are sending a clear message to criminals across the country: we will find you. We will bring you to justice. And, you will pay a very high price for what you have done." Seems that would apply to holder,hillary,most of the House and Sen ate,etc....... |
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Meh, to me it's not about the money, it's all about the prosecutions and examples being made. As far as I am concerned they can use the money to build space to keep the fraud-meisters in.
Drops in the bucket you ignorant peeps say......Those drops fill the bucket by and by. |
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Yet hilliary walks free. And Comey. And the rest of them. No Obamacare repeal, not tax plan.
When I had my first 2 knee arthroscopies I had plenty of pain management. When my knee was replaced I practically had to beg for the bare minimum. I don't know where these people find doctors to give them something for pain. The ones around here just let you suffer, they are too afraid to prescribe it. So I have no fucks to give about sessions and his personal vendetta. |
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Even a dumbass can occasionally get something correct. Dude seriously needs to drop the pot needle thing. It's not helping. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes |
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Dog and pony show. They nabbed 412 suspects in what is possibly the most fraud ridden industry in America, and now they parade themselves around and want pats on the back. That's some mighty fine police work. Maybe next month they can wrangle up a few frauds using their welfare monies to buy drugs. Think it's doable? View Quote |
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Meh, to me it's not about the money, it's all about the prosecutions and examples being made. As far as I am concerned they can use the money to build space to keep the fraud-meisters in. Drops in the bucket you ignorant peeps say......Those drops fill the bucket by and by. View Quote Kind of like the IRS fucking over the little people,while the big guys go free. This is a good start if legit and not just for show,but I still want to see hillary,holder,comey,etc...take freaking center stage for all their shit. |
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The government shouldn't be doing draconian things that destroy people just to make a point. The Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution states: “Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.” Certainly there is fraud and it should be punished, however, the way the do it now is downright evil. You're not going to be "investigated for fraud" by law enforcement agents. Medicare (thanks to Obama) contracts out your "investigation" to a private for profit company who is paid by a percentage of how much they can squeeze out of you. They come in, audit your charts and look for the tiniest of coding errors. Let's say they sample 100 charts. Let's say that they fine ONE coding error. That's "fraud" and they take the money back from you and give you a $10,000 dollar fine on top of that. Then, they figure out how many medicare patient visits your practice sees in a year, going back 5 years. Let's say your practice has about a 1000 medicare visits in a year (not that large, a 5 doc practice could easily reach those numbers). So that's 5000 medicare visits the last 5 years. The extrapolate your one case of "fraud" to a "fraudulent billing rate" of 1% and then determine that with a 1% fraud rate, you MUST have fraudulently billed 1% of those 5000 visits in the last 5 years for an extrapolated 50 counts of fraud that carry a 10,000 dollar fine each. They slap a $500,000 fine on the doctor, ruining him. Good people have killed themselves after such a fiasco. View Quote Now, whether or not the fines are too high etc...I can't say, not my area of expertise but I think they should sting- whatever level that means in the applicable case.... I certainly think there should be a way to fix or appeal honest mistakes because given a certain volume of work, in any field, there are going to be honest fuck ups, everyone is human, it happens. |
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I thought we liked "free market" solutions vs. more government agencies and mandates and expense? Isn't that what a private contractor is, a free market solution? I think that's much better than government agencies that end up being essentially bought off or rendered ineffective by Lobbyists and their paid politicians on behalf of the "regulated"........ I don't have a problem incentivizing them to root out fraud and corruption, seems like a reasonable way to handle the problem. Now, whether or not the fines are too high etc...I can't say, not my area of expertise but I think they should sting- whatever level that means in the applicable case.... I certainly think there should be a way to fix or appeal honest mistakes because given a certain volume of work, in any field, there are going to be honest fuck ups, everyone is human, it happens. View Quote |
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Reads like 'pissed into ocean, caused coastal flooding'. Financially it'll provide the same boom as Joe Blow finding $0.25 on street. In reality, if politicians see 1.6 billion saved - they'll spend 10.6 billion. Want to color me impressed? Get some of the American trillions looted by the banks and con-gressmen. While it's a lot to one man, a billion ain't shit when it took a $999 million in man hours to get it and we're still 20 trillion in debt. View Quote either way this is a START and most importantly it signals an attitude change with regards to dealing with waste fraud and abuse.... yea...its a DROP.....but every flood starts with a DROP..... |
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Please, folks... read the good doctor's above post before you start cheering on Medicare "fraud" investigations. It's not a good system. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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The government shouldn't be doing draconian things that destroy people just to make a point. The Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution states: “Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.” Certainly there is fraud and it should be punished, however, the way the do it now is downright evil. You're not going to be "investigated for fraud" by law enforcement agents. Medicare (thanks to Obama) contracts out your "investigation" to a private for profit company who is paid by a percentage of how much they can squeeze out of you. They come in, audit your charts and look for the tiniest of coding errors. Let's say they sample 100 charts. Let's say that they fine ONE coding error. That's "fraud" and they take the money back from you and give you a $10,000 dollar fine on top of that. Then, they figure out how many medicare patient visits your practice sees in a year, going back 5 years. Let's say your practice has about a 1000 medicare visits in a year (not that large, a 5 doc practice could easily reach those numbers). So that's 5000 medicare visits the last 5 years. The extrapolate your one case of "fraud" to a "fraudulent billing rate" of 1% and then determine that with a 1% fraud rate, you MUST have fraudulently billed 1% of those 5000 visits in the last 5 years for an extrapolated 50 counts of fraud that carry a 10,000 dollar fine each. They slap a $500,000 fine on the doctor, ruining him. Good people have killed themselves after such a fiasco. |
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But it's not a free market solution. It is giving a private company the monopoly of extortion power over citizens with the power of the federal government behind it with he ability to make civil and criminal prosecutions. View Quote I rather like that they are incentivized to find the fraud vs. being threatened by a bought off Congressman with a loss of their budget etc... because the Lobbyists paid him off. Government agencies are captured all the time (the Fiasco that is the FDA and their role in the spread of Meth due to Big Pharma lobbying is a great example of this) medicine has the potential to be the worst for that given the amount of money involved. |
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The government shouldn't be doing draconian things that destroy people just to make a point. The Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution states: “Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.” Certainly there is fraud and it should be punished, however, the way the do it now is downright evil. You're not going to be "investigated for fraud" by law enforcement agents. Medicare (thanks to Obama) contracts out your "investigation" to a private for profit company who is paid by a percentage of how much they can squeeze out of you. They come in, audit your charts and look for the tiniest of coding errors. Let's say they sample 100 charts. Let's say that they fine ONE coding error. That's "fraud" and they take the money back from you and give you a $10,000 dollar fine on top of that. Then, they figure out how many medicare patient visits your practice sees in a year, going back 5 years. Let's say your practice has about a 1000 medicare visits in a year (not that large, a 5 doc practice could easily reach those numbers). So that's 5000 medicare visits the last 5 years. The extrapolate your one case of "fraud" to a "fraudulent billing rate" of 1% and then determine that with a 1% fraud rate, you MUST have fraudulently billed 1% of those 5000 visits in the last 5 years for an extrapolated 50 counts of fraud that carry a 10,000 dollar fine each. They slap a $500,000 fine on the doctor, ruining him. Good people have killed themselves after such a fiasco. View Quote |
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Dog and pony show. They nabbed 412 suspects in what is possibly the most fraud ridden industry in America, and now they parade themselves around and want pats on the back. That's some mighty fine police work. Maybe next month they can wrangle up a few frauds using their welfare monies to buy drugs. Think it's doable? View Quote |
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First you have to get the government out of guaranteeing their monopolies. Can't open or expand a hospital in Georgia without a certificate of need, which will likely be denied if there is another facility in the area with that capability. Hard to have competition to lower prices when competitors aren't allowed to build facilities. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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The entire medical industry engaged in fraud, racketeering, price fixing, and monopolistic pricing. Wake me up when they start prosecuting all of that. Anti-trust laws are violated by all of them. Same as with ISP providers, only it's even worse in the medical field. |
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I just wonder who is being made an example of.Is it actual fraudsters,or is it bullshit stuff like NavyDoc pointed out? Kind of like the IRS fucking over the little people,while the big guys go free. This is a good start if legit and not just for show,but I still want to see hillary,holder,comey,etc...take freaking center stage for all their shit. View Quote IMHO if that somewhere is the low-hanging fruit then that's just fine by me. |
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NavyDoc is full of shit, use your common sense and if you do your common sense should dictate that you have to start somewhere. IMHO if that somewhere is the low-hanging fruit then that's just fine by me. View Quote ETA: and you'd do well to NOT call out a Life Member, who happens to be a physician, and knows a thing-or-two about Medicare billing. |
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and most of the crybabies that say 1.3B is nothing will turn around a say 1.6B to get the border wall rolling is a King's ransom. either way this is a START and most importantly it signals an attitude change with regards to dealing with waste fraud and abuse.... yea...its a DROP.....but every flood starts with a DROP..... View Quote Like 100 illegal immigrants self-deporting because they read the news story about one who is picked up and sent home, no? Also if the implementation of FedGov's fraud investigations is as NavyDoc stated, then I can see why doctors are refusing to take on medicare patients. |
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Like 100 illegal immigrants self-deporting because they read the news story about one who is picked up and sent home, no? Also if the implementation of FedGov's fraud investigations is as NavyDoc stated, then I can see why doctors are refusing to take on medicare patients. View Quote Don't get me wrong, Medicaid, Medicare, VA, Native Affairs, etc need audited like crazy, BUT having someone with the incentive of screwing you as deep and hard as possible for any infraction is not the way to go about it. I can't blame docs for declining those pt's in that case. |
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Dog and pony show. They nabbed 412 suspects in what is possibly the most fraud ridden industry in America, and now they parade themselves around and want pats on the back. That's some mighty fine police work. Maybe next month they can wrangle up a few frauds using their welfare monies to buy drugs. Think it's doable? View Quote Good shit gets done and all you do is piss, moan, and groan... |
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Here is a link that explains the extrapolation that NavyDoc (that guy who is so "full of sh*t") was talking about.
I'll excerpt briefly: The CMS contractor will send a provider/supplier a letter requesting money due based on a statistical sampling of an overpayment estimation or extrapolation. The initial post payment review letter will inform the provider/supplier that this is an extrapolation. The demand letters are tied to multiple claims and will typically include large dollar amounts.
Two Types of Overpayments Identified - One claim (or single claim) for one supplier/provider Extrapolation - Sample of claims used to estimate dollars paid in error for a universe of similar claims for a specific period of time The demand and/or post payment review letter will identify the type of overpayment. View Quote |
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Even a dumbass can occasionally get something correct. Dude seriously needs to drop the pot needle thing. It's not helping. View Quote |
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Here is a link that explains the extrapolation that NavyDoc (that guy who is so "full of sh*t") was talking about. I'll excerpt briefly: View Quote |
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Please, folks... read the good doctor's above post before you start cheering on Medicare "fraud" investigations. It's not a good system. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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The government shouldn't be doing draconian things that destroy people just to make a point. The Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution states: “Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.” Certainly there is fraud and it should be punished, however, the way the do it now is downright evil. You're not going to be "investigated for fraud" by law enforcement agents. Medicare (thanks to Obama) contracts out your "investigation" to a private for profit company who is paid by a percentage of how much they can squeeze out of you. They come in, audit your charts and look for the tiniest of coding errors. Let's say they sample 100 charts. Let's say that they fine ONE coding error. That's "fraud" and they take the money back from you and give you a $10,000 dollar fine on top of that. Then, they figure out how many medicare patient visits your practice sees in a year, going back 5 years. Let's say your practice has about a 1000 medicare visits in a year (not that large, a 5 doc practice could easily reach those numbers). So that's 5000 medicare visits the last 5 years. The extrapolate your one case of "fraud" to a "fraudulent billing rate" of 1% and then determine that with a 1% fraud rate, you MUST have fraudulently billed 1% of those 5000 visits in the last 5 years for an extrapolated 50 counts of fraud that carry a 10,000 dollar fine each. They slap a $500,000 fine on the doctor, ruining him. Good people have killed themselves after such a fiasco. |
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Federal law says marijuana is illegal. He's doing his job. Sounds like a snowflake issue when you say a law enforcement officer shouldn't do his job because it unduly effects your ability to break the law. View Quote |
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My wife's former boss was arrested in this mess on Wednesday. (Wife had no idea about the fraud). Nice enough guy, I had to ask myself if there was a card for this event, something along the lines of "Sorry to hear about your federal felony indictment."
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The Federal law is unconstitutional. Pass a Constitutional amendment or let it go. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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Federal law says marijuana is illegal. He's doing his job. Sounds like a snowflake issue when you say a law enforcement officer shouldn't do his job because it unduly effects your ability to break the law. |
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