Only last week Medicare released a database that shows how many visits and procedures individual health professionals billed Medicare for in 2012, and how much they were paid. Today ProPublica published an analysis of that database.
The analysis list several doctors who have been arrested for various schemes which defrauded Medicare or Medicaid yet these doctors continued to be paid for their Medicare claims. This preliminary analysis shows that o>utlays to these doctors amounted to more than $6 million in 2012. Many of these fraudsters have now been suspended after they were convicted by the state.
I'm sure this will not be the last analysis of this database.
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