[Ingtar]

On the surface, that is a meaningless statistic/headline. What percent of Medicaid is $10 billion?

[Ingtar]

Yes, I know it is in the first line of the excerpt, but the headline on its own is meaningless and sensationalist.

[Servant of the Cross]

Cockerill, who is based in Rochester, Minnesota, billed for 56,628 unique patients in the year, providing over a million services.

Assuming the 'doctor' works 5 days a week with no vacation, this means an average of 218 patients and 3,846 services ... per DAY!

[SC DOC]

The billed amount is totally meaningless. For example, I looked up my own profile in the database, and one of the codes I bill for was billed at $576. Medicare reimbursed $119. And this was just one code out of about 2 dozen. The average reimbursement from Medicare for me was 30.33% of billed charges.

[Vaduz]

A doctor a banker and a lawyer who do you trust?.

[Amagi]

Inflammatory headline, but statistically insufficient data to render an opinion.
Presumably we are to believe that a small percentage of physicians are corrupt enough to scam a TOTALLY corrupt government program.
Big, friggin' deal.

[Organic Panic]

It’s not like we are paying for it. It’s government money........

[WashingtonSource]

Rush says this is part of the new push by the Obama Administration to mount a campaign against greedy doctors to distract from the failures of Obamacare.