Feds Begin Fingerprinting 'High Risk' Medicare Providers and Suppliers

weeklystandard.com ^ | April 15, 2014 | JERYL BIER

[driftdiver]

I wonder if this includes Soros who owns part of Wellcare. A company with a history of medicare fraud.

[b4its2late]

The tentacles reach deeper.

[Gaffer]

I’ve been fingerprinted over my career more times than I can remember. They first got them in 1968 in the military.

One thing they will never get from me willingly is DNA.

[Does so]

Many Medicare fraudsters in Florida now reside in Cuba—living like a king on their stolen millions.

[ilovesarah2012]

I am shocked Soros is still alive.

[uncitizen]

first the “providers” for “weeding out bad actors in the marketplace”, next the patients because they can ( they got their foot in the door already so just try to stop them)

[dennisw]

This could have, should have been done ages ago. Just the fingerprinting will drive away many of the frauds.

But really they need a decent computer with software that will kick back suspicious providers with a suspicious pattern of billing. For further scrutiny by the fraud squad. This should have been done ages ago and never has been

Such a computer wpuld not cost more than 10 million if they have an honest company build it, not some crony capitalists

[ilovesarah2012]

Exactly. Camel. Nose. Tent.

[ilovesarah2012]

I had forgotten about that. Found a good article.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-11-20/fraud-trial-for-wellcare-ex-ceo-shows-medicaid-program-abuse.html

[mazda77]

10 million. surely our jest. 100K would easily do the trick.

[SMARTY]

Ha! That requirement should be enforced for ALL government employees... including, everyone in Congress AND the WH!

[Mouton]

“Such a computer wpuld not cost more than 10 million if they have an honest company build it, not some crony capitalists”

Consider this: it would be the government doing this. Do you see any potential such a system would not cost over a billion and have more holes than a sieve.

[Ancient Man]

Political correctness and non-profiling keep the real criminals in business. They need to go after the foreign nationals from Nigeria, Pakistan, Russia and Armenia. They should never be given Medicare or Medicaid numbers because they are here for the express purpose of defrauding the government.

[dennisw]

10 million. surely our jest. 100K would easily do the trick.

This would be enough to cover the Medicare-Medicaid base of 355,000 providers and kick out the ones needing human scrutiny?

http://www.cms.gov/Regulations-and-Guidance/Legislation/EHRIncentivePrograms/DataAndReports.html
As of February 2014, more than 355,000 health care providers received payment for participating in the Medicare and Medicaid Electronic ...

[dennisw]

Political correctness and non-profiling keep the real criminals in business. They need to go after the foreign nationals from Nigeria, Pakistan, Russia and Armenia. They should never be given Medicare or Medicaid numbers because they are here for the express purpose of defrauding the government.

I know someone who likes to scan the news for this kind of fraud. At least 70% of the fraud is done by doctors and providers who have foreign names and don't seem to have been born in America. 

India
Pakistan
Lebanon
etc etc etc

[dennisw]

Lots of Hispanic last names too among the Medicare fraudsters!

[SunkenCiv]

We need to do that will elective office candidates and bureaucrats.

Thanks ilovesarah2012.

[Patriot Babe]

Right now I’m unemployed so I’m going thru a job site to check out some job. Well folks my jaw dropped when I saw this:

http://hire.jobvite.com/CompanyJobs/Careers.aspx?k=Job&c=qkx9VfwF&j=oHJMYfwU&s=Indeed

Please read the very first line on top of this job.

[Mears]

“India
Pakistan
Lebanon
etc etc etc “

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Don’t forget Russia. We had a case of fraud some years ago in the Boston area and it involved Russians,who are all over the place since the early 80s.

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