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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: Lane3 who wrote (34873)3/5/2014 3:00:43 PM
From: J_F_Shepard  Read Replies (3) of 42652
 
When I was first in Medicare I read the CMS reports. Found that Medicare was billed for "multiple genital warts" when what was removed was one wart on my finger. I tried to report it without success. No one at CMS/Medicare was interested.
Did you complain to the provider's office?? That's happened to me a couple of times and also from a dental provider..... In all cases the billing office reduced the charges either to Medicare or my dental insurance or me...... I hate when they pull that crap and being associated with Medicare has nothing to do with it.....simple greed and fraud....

I posted here a few months ago about an orthopedist from my group who had billings of over 7 million dollars over two years.... He billed for fake surgeries, phantom surgeries......as many as 19 surgeries a day... He claimed office visits from about 50 patients a day..... He was caught but it wasn't by his own billing department.... The group settled a law suit for about 4 million......others are pending and he is awaiting trial...

You should know what services you received and the patient shouldn't have to know the codes to see what he was billed for ....
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