{"id":41584,"date":"2009-11-13T14:13:33","date_gmt":"2009-11-13T19:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"4b945bc1-4ba6-4add-8ef8-a557334384af"},"modified":"2009-11-13T14:13:33","modified_gmt":"2009-11-13T19:13:33","slug":"feds-overlooked-medicare-scam-warnings-the-ap-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/41584","title":{"rendered":"Feds Overlooked Medicare Scam Warnings, The AP Reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5j_Dqfv_nKjLjsEguzMkvzLv7UK6gD9BUQ7DO0\" >The Associated Press<\/a> reports that the Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services &#8220;received roughly 30 warnings from inspectors (on suspected Medicare fraud)\u00a0over three years during the Bush and Obama administrations but didn&#8217;t respond to half of them, even after repeated letters.&#8221; The news story was\u00a0based on\u00a0records received from Sen. Chuck Grassley&#8217;s office. &#8220;A July 2008 warning said organized crime had infiltrated the system and was costing more than $1 million dollars for each phony Medicare provider license the crooks obtained. The letter got no response, Grassley said.&#8221; Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said CMS usually responds promptly to fraud warnings, but that she was not satisfied that some fraud alerts were getting a\u00a0sufficient response. &#8220;Grassley wants the agency to respond to future fraud warnings within two months and Sebelius agreed&#8221; (Kennedy, 11\/13).<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/khn\/fulltext\/~4\/jUlKZKa1bzU\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Associated Press reports that the Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services &#8220;received roughly 30 warnings from inspectors (on suspected Medicare fraud)\u00a0over three years during the Bush and Obama administrations but didn&#8217;t respond to half of them, even after repeated letters.&#8221; The news story was\u00a0based on\u00a0records received from Sen. Chuck Grassley&#8217;s office. &#8220;A July 2008 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}