A doctor who took kickbacks from a Pennsylvania and a Ohio psychiatrist who billed for no-show patients are among 1,800 providers being paid by a state Medicaid system, despite having been banned from a different state’s Medicaid system or from Medicare, a Reuters investigation of revoked providers found.
From the story:
[M]ore than one in five of the thousands of doctors and other healthcare providers in the U.S. prohibited from billing Medicare are still able to bill state Medicaid programs. In all, Reuters found 1,800 banned providers that were still able to bill elsewhere on a given date in 2014. The figures almost certainly underestimate the phenomenon by thousands of providers because of inadequate state and federal data.
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