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CMS says new system will avoid payments using dead doctors' names

July 11, 2008 — 9:39am ET | By Anne Zieger
While doubtless embarrassed by the revelation that crooks have been profiting handsomely billing Medicare using dead doctors, CMS has a system in place to end the practice. That, at least, is what... Read more...

Medicare paid almost $100M to dead doctors since 2000, report finds

July 9, 2008 — 12:45pm ET | By Anne Zieger
Since 2000, Medicare has paid out as much as $92 million to DME providers for equipment prescribed by doctors who were dead at the time, a Congressional investigation has found. During that period,... Read more...