Health-overhaul legislation moving through Congress contains provisions to beef up the government’s anti-fraud effort. The U.S. loses at least $60 billion to health-care fraud every year, and some estimates put the cost as high as 10% of the nation’s total health-care spending, which exceeds $2 trillion. Medicare, the federal insurance program for the elderly and disabled, and Medicaid, the federal-state program for the poor, are especially susceptible. The government has announced a series of indictments on Medicare and Medicaid fraud in the past two years, including indictments earlier this week involving a Mississippi medical clinic.
Lawmakers Target Medicare and Medicaid Fraud Review It
The federal government needs to further step up efforts
Posted on 11/09/09 at 09:59AM
