A Colorado resident was charged with trying to steal hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars by billing the state’s Medicaid program for transporting a patient to doctor’s appointments — rides that would have taken place after that person had already died.A new report by the House Energy and Commerce Committee revealed that taxpayer-funded healthcare programs, specifically Medicare and Medicaid, are rife with vulnerabilities that allow them to be exploited on the local, state and federal levels."Medicare and Medicaid fraud occurs nationwide and costs American taxpayers billions of dollars a...
Medicaid provider allegedly billed $165K for dead patient's rides among fraud exposed in explosive report
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