And the article reads in part "Targeting equipment fraud
Prosecuting fraud is one way to help curtail it, but the most effective method is to stop it from happening in the first place, HHS and Justice Dept. officials said.
One example HHS cited was the work it has undertaken to stop fraudulent claims for durable medical equipment. These activities used to be very appealing to criminals because it was easy to set up a fake storefront,...
"All you had to do was rent a room, put some equipment on the shelves, get a phone line and you were set," she said.
And WHERE is the National Supplier Clearinghouse (NSC)? So much for proactive enforcement of existing rules and as a taxpayer I am furious that again the NSC FAILED to perform it's duties.
Shall we go on... ""For example, we were recently able to see that Miami-Dade County, which is home to 2% of Medicare home health patients, has 90% of home health patients receiving more than $100,000 in care each year," said HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. "When you see numbers like that, you don't need a PhD in statistics to know something is going on."
But let's see, in less than 18 months - in ONE COUNTY in the entire US - billings for one series of codes spiked in huge fraud - the 'wheeler dealer scam'. Ms. Sebelius, you don't need a PhD in statistic to know something was wrong... yet again, private companies HIRED BY CMS and paid for by us taxpayers, FAILED to enforce the laws on the books.
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