[markomalley]

I wonder how much fraud would be eliminated if people were responsible to pay their own bills, rather than having a third party pay for them?

(In other words, Medical Savings Accounts versus insurance)

[pepsionice]

People have spent an awful lot of time exploring the weak nature of Medicare. Even if you repair in some nature....they will just come back for more easy money.

[LSAggie]

I wonder how much fraud would be eliminated if people were responsible to pay their own bills, rather than having a third party pay for them?

Unfortunately, that's not an option right now.

I would like to see an accurate number on the reversal rate. The hospitals say 70% and the RCA's say 2.4%. Sheesh, how can anything be resolved when the entities involved can't even agree on how to count reversals.

[muawiyah]

About 100% ~ simply because folks handling all the payments side would have no idea if the charges were legitimate.