From the monthly archives:

September 2006

Medicare Recipient Gets $18,000 Bill for Services Not Rendered Including Infusion Therapy

by Nolan and Auerbach on September 27, 2006

A sharp Medicare beneficiary says that Medicare was billed $24,653 and paid $17,956 for services not provided. The billings included 15 office visits and $1,000 injections for HIV and AIDS patients; neither of which the beneficiary needed or received. As a matter of fact, he had never been to the West Miami medical center that [...]

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CMS Administrator Mark McClellan Is Leaving to Join Think Tank

by Nolan and Auerbach on September 7, 2006

In five weeks, CMS Administrator Mark McClellan is going to leave and focus on improving the health care system in the United States. McClellan is leaving a post he held since March 2004. Previously he was the FDA Commissioner from 2002 through 2004. As part of his job McClellan oversees a federal budget of approximately [...]

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