Medicare & Medicaid Fraud
Medicare and Medicaid are government healthcare programs that cost over $1 trillion each year. Estimates of fraudulent healthcare billing, both private and public, are between 3% and 10% of total health care expenditures. Attorney General Eric Holder stated, “Every year we lose tens of billions of dollars in Medicare and Medicaid funds to fraud. Those billions represent healthcare dollars that could be spent on medicine, elder care, or emergency room visits, but instead are wasted on greed.” As the population ages and people live longer the demand for Medicare and Medicaid services will continue to increase. This demand unfortunately has many trying to take advantage of the enormity of this system. Given the number of patients, healthcare providers and services, the government alone cannot combat Medicare and Medicaid fraud. Frauds in this field range from inflating costs on Medicare reports to research grant fraud, but all of them hurt this vital system and take away from patient care.
Whistleblowers have a unique ability to help root out these frauds with their unique perspective and potential insider information. When individuals or companies take advantage of Medicare and Medicaid it puts a burden on these systems and in turn on each one of us who help to support it.
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Medicare & Medicaid Fraud Examples
- Upcoding; the practice of billing for a healthcare treatment or service which is more costly than the one provided which allows the healthcare provider to receive more money than they should
- Lack of medical necessity for procedures or services
- False certification of a healthcare contract
- Bundling or unbundling procedures; preforming a number of grouped procedures together can qualify a healthcare provider for specials reimbursement rates; or unbundling procedures and billing for each separately can increase the reimbursement rate.
- Research grant fraud can include falsifying an application, using grant money for unrelated research, or falsifying data.
- Inflating Medicare Cost Reports by reporting false information to increase reimbursement.
Latest Medicare and Medicaid Fraud News
When Greed Goes Too Far: As Hospice Fraud Skyrockets, Death Toll Rises
A large-scale fraud scheme uncovered earlier this year sheds light on just how vile healthcare administrators can be in their pursuit of financial gain. Novus
CA Hospice’s Medicare Fraud: Inflating Patient Lifespans
When a program created to provide important end-of-life services is so often the victim of fraud, should we blame the broken system itself, or instead
It Only Takes One Bad Egg to Spoil the Whole Basket
Hospice care was contrived out of the desire to create a model for end-of-life quality, and generally speaking, hospice facilities provide such care without issue.
Hospice Fraud’s Dire Impact on Late-Life Care Explained
In order to fully grasp the seriousness of Medicare fraud, primarily that pertaining to hospice care, it’s important to discuss the entire purpose for hospice:
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