There is an existing task force on Medicare fraud that just made arrests in multiple different schemes, so the problem is definitely being addressed.

HHS doesn’t even see the paperwork that would have to be scanned to detect fraud, that’s handled by CMS on contract.

Most fraud investigations are started when someone complains that they didn’t need or receive something on their use report, or if the ID number isn’t valid, usually because someone has died. [You would be surprised at how active dead people are in South Florida – they vote, they get mobility equipment, all kinds of things. Maybe it’s all the Haitians creating zombies 😈 ]

Generally a victim has to report a crime before there is an investigation, and Medicare clearly needs to discover and report that they are being defrauded to the proper prosecuting agency, but clearly they already have something along those lines given the number of Medicare fraud cases that have been successfully prosecuted over the past few years…

Just more grandstanding by a Republican dipstick who doesn’t know his talking end from his taking-a-dump end… what else is new?

– Badtux the Healthcare Penguin
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