Health cost fraud: The Most Wanted

Jeanne Pinder April 19, 2011

This is for real: a Web site from the Health and Human Services Department showing the most wanted fugitives committing Medicare and Medicaid fraud. For example: “Carlos, Luis, and Jose Benitez, commonly referred to as the Benitez brothers, allegedly schemed to submit false and fraudulent claims to Medicare, pocketing approximately $110 million from Medicare, according […]

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Outsourcing help on health costs

Jeanne Pinder

Two health-care cost resources came across our radar today. OffYourDesk.net announces “Dealing with health insurance paperwork can be frustrating and time-consuming, so why not let us do it? We’ll handle every aspect of your health insurance claims, so you get the maximum reimbursement you deserve quickly, easily and pain-free.” It costs $195 a year, or […]

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Costs, fraud-busting and consolidation

Jeanne Pinder April 14, 2011

From the news: An appendectomy in Texas can cost as little as $1,747.35 at Providence Memorial Hospital in El Paso, or as much as $7,335.94 at Lake Pointe Medical Center in Rowlett, according to an interactive tool posted by The Texas Tribune. The Tribune used public data from Medicaid, the joint state-federal health care program […]

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Finding the money

Jeanne Pinder April 10, 2011

Groundbreaking reporting on the health-care payments system this year came from The Wall Street Journal. The government is the largest payer of medical claims, and The Journal has made good use of what data it has to identify providers who have performed an outsize number of procedures, collected an outsize amount of money, and generally […]

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Transparency and consequences: The roundup

Jeanne Pinder March 10, 2011

The business of the U.S. Government is mostly insurance and the military, writes Ezra Klein in the Washington Post, with a truly alarming chart. More. Dozens of recent medical studies show that Medicaid patients suffer for having it. In some cases, they’d do just as well without health insurance. Scott Gottlieb, The Wall Street Journal. […]

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