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Facilities designer: Medicare is 'the biggest Ponzi scheme of all time'
America is falling victim to the "the biggest Ponzi scheme of all time," according to Marc Sauvé, senior healthcare strategist for Nashville, TN-based architecture firm Gresham, Smith and... Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: Medicare funds should be gone by 2017
Here's grim (if not surprising) news: Trustees are estimating that the Medicare trust fund will be exhausted in 2017, two years earlier than they'd previously expected. Medicare's annual costs were... Read more...
CMS: RAC program has recovered more than $1B
CMS has released a new report stating that Medicare has recovered more than $1 billion through the Recovery Audit Contractor program since 2005, with 85 percent of the money having been taken back... Read more...
