Health Care Update: Republican Reading Room

Our brilliant political leaders, yes, you know who, also made no provisions for beneficary abuse. These are the people who just go to the emergency department over and over and over again without any particular malady. You know those people or maybe you don't. The drug seekers, malingerers and, yes, those people who simply want to eat. To add insult, they often take an ambulance to get there.

In the Central Valley California in one community hospital, over 2000 patients went to the ED greater than 2000 times and greater than 500 people went more than 4 times.

The Center for Medicare and Medicaid (“CMS”) lays the ground work for providers and physicians committing fraud and abuse within the Medicare and Medicaid...