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| Obama Program Made $729 Million in Erroneous Payments to Doctors |
| 2017-06-13 |
| [Free Beacon] An Obama administration program to encourage the use of electronic health records made over $729 million in erroneous payments, according to a new audit. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services also paid dead doctors for enrolling in its program, the audit, released by the agency's inspector general Monday, revealed. "From May 2011 through June 2014, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services paid an estimated $729 million in Medicare electronic health record incentive payments to eligible professionals who did not comply with Federal requirements," the inspector general said. "In addition, it paid $2.3 million in inappropriate electronic health record incentive payments to eligible professionals who switched incentive programs." The incentive programs were created under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, commonly known as the stimulus package, signed by former President Barack Obama in 2009. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #7 Probably only Dem-oriented |
| Posted by: Frank G 2017-06-13 19:38 |
| #6 Page 5 of this document might be a start. |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2017-06-13 13:10 |
| #5 $729 million yields how much in kickbacks? Or, am I thinking Clintons, because O & Co are not that sophisticated? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2017-06-13 11:35 |
| #4 I wonder how many of the 'doctor/donors' were of Central Asian origin? |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2017-06-13 11:18 |
| #3 Bribes to get them to accept the new electronic health records (which probably have all sorts of back doors for Obama era intelligence gathering). |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2017-06-13 11:05 |
| #2 Nothing like a little stimulus program to bump up the national debt. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2017-06-13 10:38 |
| #1 The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services also paid dead doctors for enrolling in its program, the audit, released by the agency's inspector general Monday, revealed. Where did the $729m end up? |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2017-06-13 09:33 |