ALJAZAM Inside Story April 10, 2014
Choices and may help to root out fraud. But the data only tells part of the story. The centers for medicare and Medicaid Services made a threedecade secret public wednesday, its Health Provider spending data. Medicaid is an Entitlement Program that is not based on income. It insures 34 million americans a year, primarily the elderly. The data says that among more than 880,000 medicare providers, 252 billion were spent on medical charges and 77. 4 billion were spent on doctor payments. A few records that stand out f for 2012, seven doctors each received more than 10 million. And three doctors i...