Q & A
How hard is it to recover payments made on bogus Medicare claims?
Answer: It is difficult. The government clawed back just $2.86 billion in the 2013 fiscal year. Most times the money is simply gone. As one law-enforcement official said, “As soon as it hits an account, it disappears.”
Source: The Short Answer, WSJ – 8/14/2014
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