10.14.10
By Mike Betron, Infoglide Software Director of Marketing Last night the largest Medicare fraud operation yet discovered was in the headlines: A vast network of Armenian gangsters and their associates used phantom health care clinics and other means to try to cheat Medicare out of $163 million, the largest fraud by one criminal enterprise in [...]
07.15.10
By Mike Betron, Infoglide Software Director of Marketing More than half of the $98 million in “improper payments” by the federal government in 2009 were made through Medicare and Medicaid. A recent article in the New England Journal of Medicine points out that “since 1990, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) has designated Medicare as a [...]
06.23.10
By Mike Shultz, Infoglide Software CEO Last week Rep. Scott Murphy of Glen Falls (D-NY) told a House panel that more effective policing of Medicare and Medicaid fraud claims is imperative in order to reduce the estimated $60 billion in fraudulent claims that is disbursed each year. We agree with the expressed intent, and we [...]
04.22.10
By Haroon Alvi, CEO Southlake Medical Supplies, Inc. Health care reform, aka health insurance reform, is a broad and complex issue with many “moving parts” in need of repair. With this in mind, I would like to look at one area of health care that has received some attention in the press — Medicare fraud. [...]
04.13.10
By Mike Betron, Infoglide Director of Marketing Medicaid is in the news almost daily, as states take steps to crack down on fraudulent claims. For example, Maryland is in the process of passing stiffer laws to support its efforts to reduce the 5-10% of fraudulent claims made that draw from the $6.2 billion it pays [...]