Go Directly to Jail: The Criminalization of Almost Everything by Healy Gene

Author:Healy, Gene [Healy, Gene]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 1930865635
Publisher: Cato Institute - A
Published: 2004-10-25T04:00:00+00:00

As former AMA president Dr. Dickey pointed out, “The government relies on an ‘estimate’ of improper payments based upon a review of claims that were filed for 600 Medicare patients. That’s 0.0015% of Medicare’s 39 million beneficiaries. It’s from this sample that officials project that $12.6 billion is being ripped off the system.”12 The sample clearly is too small to be accurate.

Many of the errors involve doctors mistakenly failing to put the correct number (drawn from thousands of billing codes) in the right box on the correct form. Nonetheless, HIPAA’s new penalties for such clerical errors are stiff: possible fines up to $10,000 for each instance.13

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