Fiscal Cliff

Common types of Medicare fraud include:
Hospice care centers overbilling for patients stays and care.
Rehabilitation centers systematically inflating rehab bills.
Durable medical equipment fraud: kickbacks schemes in medical sales of items such as bedding and wheelchairs.
Nursing home overbilling of staff time and patient care.
Assisted living center fraud.
Medical coding: alteration of medical codes for different procedures and diagnosis.
Ambulance service fraud: billing for rides not authorized by Medicare.

Healthcare professionals that report Medicare fraud may be entitled to receive a significant financial reward for coming forward to us with their information.

Medicare abuse and fraud like this costs taxpayers tens of billions of dollars every year. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, or C.M.S., estimated that in 2010, the two programs together made more than $65 billion in improper federal payments. An April 2012 study by a RAND Corporation analyst and former C.M.S. administrator estimated that fraud and abuse cost Medicare and Medicaid as much as $98 billion in 2011.

I get the sense that these lawmakers actually want the Budget Control Act to kick in, because across the board tax increases and spending cuts are precisely what is needed by the country in regard to the national debt, and after it happens both parties can blame the other for the intransigence that lead to its implementation.

How and when will this stupidity end?

How and when will this stupidity end?

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How and when will this stupidity end?

When the man on the white horse arrives.