It has been about 6 months since ObamaCare was passed.
About half of the funding is supposed to come from MediCare, and Obama said not to worry — most of that would come from eliminating waste and fraud.
Except for the Andy Griffith ad, there’s been eery silence about progress cutting waste & fraud.
Hmmm … as I was wondering how they’re doing on that, the WSJ published the following:
Somewhere in the New York City area there is a family-practice doctor who, in 2008, pocketed more than $2 million from Medicare, the federal insurance program for the elderly.
That made her one of the best-paid family-medicine physicians in the Medicare system.
But more noteworthy than the sum is her pattern of billing, which strongly suggests abuse or even outright fraud, according to experts who have examined her records.
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Unfortunately, the Medicare database comes with a severe limitation.While the services and earnings of hospitals and other institutional providers can be publicly identified, such information is kept strictly confidential for doctors and other individual providers.
The reason is that the American Medical Association, the doctors’ trade group, successfully sued the government more than three decades ago to keep secret how much money individual physicians receive from Medicare.
The AMA stands by its position and says little would be accomplished by publishing individual physician billing information.
Oh yeah … the AMA –which represents less than 20% of U.S. doctors — is on board for ObamaCare.
Hmmm, again.
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