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California is very expensive to live in. "Nursing homes in some California counties are billing Medicare for the most expensive services at a rate ten times greater than what regulators accounted for, costing tax payers tens of millions."
California should be proud--we have a 50% fraud rate.
"The category was created in the interest of fighting fraud and creating a category for only five percent of patients with the greatest needs. Instead of taming growing costs, though, they grew even more rapidly as nursing homes moved more and more patients in that rarified category, the Post reported.
An interactive map of U.S. counties shows some in California where not 5 percent, but rather more than 50 percent of patients are put into that cost-plus category, including Orange, San Bernardino, Contra Costa, Sacramento and Yolo counties."
That is why health care is expensive. Why hasn't government stopped this much fraud?
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California should be proud--we have a 50% fraud rate.
"The category was created in the interest of fighting fraud and creating a category for only five percent of patients with the greatest needs. Instead of taming growing costs, though, they grew even more rapidly as nursing homes moved more and more patients in that rarified category, the Post reported.
An interactive map of U.S. counties shows some in California where not 5 percent, but rather more than 50 percent of patients are put into that cost-plus category, including Orange, San Bernardino, Contra Costa, Sacramento and Yolo counties."
That is why health care is expensive. Why hasn't government stopped this much fraud?
More...