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Ripe for Fraud
The Department of Health and Human Services isn't meeting President Barack Obama's high-profile directive to reduce waste, fraud and abuse in government, failing to report all excessive or...
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Freudian Fraud
Safeguards on Medicare funding for community mental health centers are so weak that half the centers have unusually high billing with characteristics that suggest fraud, according to an investigation...
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Day Late, Dollar Short
The Health and Human Services Department overpaid providers $8.4 million because it did not deduct late fees owed by Medicare and Medicaid providers, the agency's internal watchdog has found.HHS didn't...
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Dietary Drug Delinquents
The government is failing to aggressively regulate misleading or prohibited claims in the booming dietary supplements marketplace, potentially putting consumers' health at risk, a federal watchdog...
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Medi-Careless
Thousands of Medicare beneficiaries were put at risk of having their private medical information stolen because of security breaches, and the government was slow to notify or help most of the victims,...
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Senior Slip-ups
A $1.7 billion initiative by state and local governments to allow Medicare seniors to live more independently is actually sending large numbers of patients to assisted living facilities with licensing...
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Medicare's Medication Mistake
The government office that oversees Medicare and Medicaid has reimbursed prescription drugs at market costs, instead of at optional lower rates that could potentially save taxpayers millions of dollars...
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Medicare's Grocery Card Giveaway
The Department of Health and Human Services has given qualified approval for a Medicare provider to give away $20 grocery gift cards to induce seniors to get more taxpayer-funded health screenings,...
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HIV Testing Ignored
Medical centers receiving federal funding aren't following government guidelines regarding HIV tests, a new investigative report found.In fact, only 20 percent of the centers tested all teens and...
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Making Taxpayers Sick
Multiple government agencies are inspecting the same lab sites that work with hazardous materials like anthrax, an unnecessary overlap that wastes the government money as it faces budget cuts brought...
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Redundant Government
Imagine a deeply indebted household paying two companies to cut the same lawn, a shopper going to Costco and not buying bulk or a failing company paying billions to study itself.You don't have to...
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Seeing Double, Paying Double
Some times seconds are good. Ice cream. Vacations. But not necessarily medicines. A pair of reports from a federal watchdog finds that Medicare is paying millions for unneeded second helpings of...
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Call the Collector
Medicare, already under fire from Congress for its financial woes, did not recover $543 million in overpayments during 2010, and can provide little information on which contractors they overpaid,...
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