Posted on 09/29/2015 4:55:03 PM PDT by artichokegrower
Medicare paid $30 million for ambulance rides for which no record exists that patients got medical care at their destination, the place where they were picked up or other critical information.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
New York City survives on Left-wing gaming the system - from fake ambulance rides to Wall Street banks using printed Federal Reserve fiat money to spread debt around.
Take away the nanny state and NYC collapses.
A lot of those are probably from car accidents. The police can put people in a ambulance and send them to the hospital regardless of whether they want to go or not. When they get there they just leave.
Ambulances were used to transport illegals and to avoid ICE and police?
I thought that was called fraud...
...The Department of Health and Human Services’ inspector general’s office also found that some urban ambulance services got paid for an average distance of more than 100 miles per ride. That contrasts with a national average of just 10 miles for urban ambulance rides....
...In the end, they were stumped. “The transports may not have occurred,” the report said. For 46 ambulance companies, there was no record that patients got medical services in more than 9 out of 10 of the rides they billed for....
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Stumped? Clearly fraud
Did you miss that there was no documentation of “the place where they were picked up or other critical information”? Accidents would still be documented.
Biggest healthcare frauds in 2015: Running list
http://www.healthcarefinancenews.com/slideshow/biggest-healthcare-frauds-2015-running-list?p=3
A you didn’t build that business model. Your money on the free stuff pass around complements of arranged giverment lookin the other way. Nothing to see here .,. dinndo nuffin .
they will whine, complain, wonder how it happened, and no one will go to jail.....PATHETIC
Shocked here. ...
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