Medicare fraud: Is everybody doing it?
If your hospital has found itself on the hot seat for allegedly defrauding the federal government of Medicare payments, you’re in good company.
The government’s two-year investigation into Medicare fraud and abuse has pinpointed problems at 4,600 hospitals, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer newspaper. The largest problem found was with outpatient services that were double-billed to Medicare.
By the time the investigation ends, the government expects to have collected $120 million in penalties. Nearly 1,000 hospitals have already settled. One benefit of settling, the Inquirer found, was that part of the agreement prohibits the government from revealing that the hospital had been fined.
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