Importance Of Social Health Services
In 2011, there were talks within the government of further cutting off Medicare budget as political leaders face the nations problem on economic turmoil. Needless to say I am against that because Medicare is a basic social health service.
It is the federal government’s responsibility to provide the country with much needed social services. Social services cater to the basic needs of everyone, especially those who are having financial problems.
Not all people can afford paying for hospital bills and with no health care services, there is no option left for these people. With the importance of Medicare, we cannot risk billions of dollars being lost every year because of selfish scams.
Medicare fraud occurs when the service is charged or billed for procedures that were even done in the first place. Simply put, Medicare fraud is overbilling the social service.
Among the most popular is phantom billing. This means billing for tests that weren’t really done and charging for supplies or equipment that were never even ordered.
Other common Medicare fraud techniques are unbundling and code jamming. Code jamming means faking diagnosis codes are used to get coverage. Another one is up coding which means faking diagnosis codes to charge costs higher than the original procedure. Same thing with double billing, a service done is charged more than once.
Scammers are the only people who benefit from Medicare fraud while everybody else loses. Honest and law abiding citizens, the government, and medical professionals all lose every time fraudulent Medicare practices are committed. These fraudulent people are stealing taxpayer’s money and the whole country is not benefiting from it.
Anybody can be a whistleblower as long as you have to guts. Most whistle blowers are concerned health care professionals who want to make sure everyone is just being fair. There are a lot of types of Medicare fraud and we should be familiar with the most popular ones if we want to be whistleblowers. Go to the official site of Medicare to report Medicare fraud that you have witnessed. Other means of reporting fraud is through the Medicare fraud hotline.
Medicare fraud is an ongoing national issue and we should all be responsible in fighting it. Its time for everyone to be whistleblowers so click here to do a medicare fraud hotline.
