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A friend forwarded this link regarding Wellcare and Pharma Fraud....
Any truth to this article?
Looks very bad for Wellcare (sigh)
PharmaFraud
Any truth to this article?
Looks very bad for Wellcare (sigh)
PharmaFraud
Holy...Molly! Is this for Real?
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Yep, I posted about this in the 'senior' forum yesterday after the raid became known.
I smelled rats with the whole Medicare Advantage thing long ago. Looks like it's coming to fruition.
Yes, they can serve a purpose...but douchebag agents/companies misused them...and now look what happened. Makes the industry as a whole look rather poor in the eyes of Joe and Mary Consumer, I must say.
I smelled rats with the whole Medicare Advantage thing long ago. Looks like it's coming to fruition.
Yes, they can serve a purpose...but douchebag agents/companies misused them...and now look what happened. Makes the industry as a whole look rather poor in the eyes of Joe and Mary Consumer, I must say.
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Yeah....i don't like reading about this kind of stuff...but its reality. Greed in corporate America...Managers with golden parachutes...tied to stock prices.
Hope there's a silver lining in this somewhere.
Hope there's a silver lining in this somewhere.
In one case, said Alex Acosta, the US attorney for the Southern District of Florida, a company had billed Medicare for millions of dollars worth of specially formulated asthma medication prepared at what the owner claimed to be his own local pharmacy.
"The person wasn't a pharmacist, he was an air conditioner repairman. When we raided the so-called pharmacy where he mixed all these aerosols it was nothing more than a broom closet where all we found was a can of tar," Mr Acosta said.
This is not big business, corporate greed. This is an individual getting away with something.
Not unlike the case of a Philipino (now a US citizen) who told me his father needed heart surgery, so he flew him to LA, what do you know? The father went to a doctor, he needed heart surgery, and $300,000 in medical bills later, flew back home to the Phillipines. Most of us would call that fraud. The Philipino didn't. He just shrugged his shoulders - that is, after all, how our system works. And he wasn't responsible for payment.
"The person wasn't a pharmacist, he was an air conditioner repairman. When we raided the so-called pharmacy where he mixed all these aerosols it was nothing more than a broom closet where all we found was a can of tar," Mr Acosta said.
This is not big business, corporate greed. This is an individual getting away with something.
Not unlike the case of a Philipino (now a US citizen) who told me his father needed heart surgery, so he flew him to LA, what do you know? The father went to a doctor, he needed heart surgery, and $300,000 in medical bills later, flew back home to the Phillipines. Most of us would call that fraud. The Philipino didn't. He just shrugged his shoulders - that is, after all, how our system works. And he wasn't responsible for payment.
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