$375M health care scam went unobserved for years

The Texas doctor blamed of “selling his signature” to process almost $375 million in false Medicare and Medicaid claims was ignored for half a decade by a fraud detection system that some critics hold is ineffective. Authorities hold that Jacques … Continue reading

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Language Impairment after a Stroke may add up to Medical Costs

According to research reported in Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association, stroke-related language impairment leads to an addition of about $1,703 per patient to medical costs the first year after stroke. The researchers scrutinized the records of 3,200 South Carolina Medicare Insurance … Continue reading

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