Medicare administrator: Private insurers shouldn’t be burden

Nothing suspicious about a corner drugstore billing Medicare an average $2.153,846.00 per year for senior citizens prescriptions.

WASHINGTON — Medicare paid $5.6 billion to 2,600 pharmacies with questionable billings, including a Kansas drugstore that submitted more than 1,000 prescriptions each for two patients in just one year, government investigators have found.

Medicare also said it has anti-fraud contractors that are already keeping close tabs on the program.

"We believe it is important to note that (the inspector general's) report identified what appeared to be questionable billing based on its own data analysis but did not determine any actual fraud committed by the pharmacies," Tavenner wrote.
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