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FL health system settles Medicare fraud charges
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CMS has to be more diligent to curtail the fraud and abuse in all areas especially in South Florida and California. The was is estimated to be over $25 million per hour. We could pay off the national debt with that money.
I work at a hospital and have been approached by the ethics committees because of several doctors billing for services that the patients say they never received. I have been aware of this and report my information to these committees. I am assured that the issues will be taken care of. Nothing happens, and the doctors are politically powerful in the hospital. If I went outside the hospital (it's an HCA facility) I would be fired because we all have to take a course on corporate compliance/ethics which states we must go through channels. I feel extremely frustrated and at age 62 am fearful of being fired/blacklisted in ways that I would never know about. I'd just be unemployed. Sebelius is a good person, she was Insurance commissioner in my state (kansas) and I think she really stood up for the "little guy" against the huge insurance companies/hospitals/powerful doctors. However, she can't do it alone. There's a lot of money behind these interests and we citizens are too frightened, at least I am. I am an infinitely replacable cog in this machine. I know that.





