In what the U.S. Department of Justice is calling the largest nationwide crackdown on Medicare and Medicaid fraud ever, some 243 people were recently arrested…
By Mary Johnson The Obama Administration and proponents of Obamacare have continued to downplay the cancellations of the health insurance of 4.7 million individual policy-holders…
The Obama administration recently proposed new regulations to deny Medicare to illegal immigrants and remove them from Medicare rolls. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid…
By Mary Johnson, editor You get them whenever you visit a doctor, or fill a prescription — Medicare’s “explanation of benefits” forms. Often perplexing, many…
By Mary Johnson, editor Medicare fraud appears to have taken a terrible new turn. A Michigan cancer doctor, Dr. Farid Fata, was charged with deliberately misdiagnosing…
Here’s a list of common scams from the StopMedicareFraud.gov website: Be suspicious of doctors, healthcare providers, or suppliers who: Ask for your Medicare number in…
By Jessie Gibbons, Legislative Assistant Each year, Medicare and Medicaid – two of the government’s largest and most financially strapped programs – lose tens of…
Too many doctors are prescribing large quantities of narcotics and addictive drugs that may be finding their way onto the streets, or putting patients at…
Here’s What Seniors Think About The Medicare Fraud-Fighting Cut Recent “automatic” Medicare budget cuts slash $63 million from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services…
By Mary Johnson, Editor Medicare thieves are robbing the program by as much as $60 billion a year. But that hasn’t stopped recent automatic Medicare…