I am convinced that every sector of healthcare, from chiropractor to pharmacist to brain surgeons are bleeding the healthcare system. ‘Specially Medicare and Medicaid.
A lot of times they schedule endless followup appointments where they do absolutely nothing.
The whole cholesterol grift is another example. It’s main purpose is to provide a market for statins that are at best useless and actually harmful for some people.
A sure sign you are being used for some sort of fraud is when you try to ask your doctor questions and he gets defensive and flexes his own authority rather than answering your questions.
All of that is legal fraud that alone is probably bigger than the illegal fraud.
I completely agree. Look at the cost of anything paid with insurance versus cash (or any government payout for that matter). If the person getting a service is not the person paying for the service, there is an opportunity for theft.
The fraudsters make up non-existent people to completely steal from the government, but how many hospitals and doctors inflate their bills because they can?
Deloitte IES Integrated Eligibility System is the biggest fraudster and the one that makes much of the other Medicaid and ACA fraud possible. Deloitte IES is in more than half the states including CA,TX, FL, GA, IL, MI, PA, NY ...all the big states (not MN).