Thursday, October 13, 2011
More Gov't Will Reduce Health Costs
Froma Harrop, Providence Journal"Home-Health Firms Blasted." The headline refers to a Senate Finance Committee finding that major providers of home-based services to Medicare patients were bilking the government program. Big time.Paying for nurse and therapist visits to patients' homes was supposed to cut down on high hospital charges. But the three biggest home-health giants have been abusing the system by gaming the number of visits and pushing unnecessary care. "At worst, they may be examples of for-profit companies defrauding" the taxpayers, the committee report said.A good-news story lurks...
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