Friday, November 17, 2006

Over at Health Care Renewal...

As my readers know, I'm a big fan of Health Care Renewal. I've linked to several of their stories and I'll post a teaser of another good one here...

"The report documented nearly $36 million in illegal Medicare and Medicaid payments for procedures on hundreds of patients, in ex change for payments of $5.7 million to physicians since 2002 in ex change for sending their heart patients to UMDNJ's University Hospital.' Unfortunately, this scheme reached well into all levels of the hospital and University Central Administration, who were complicit first in forming and expediting this illegal plan, and later in covering it up,' said Stern in his report, who said the illegal activity 'persists to this day…”

Sound interesting? Check out the link to the full story here.

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