CSPAN Q A September 8, 2014
What is the story . It is about something that lasted a long time. This is something that took me a little while to understand. The Power Wheelchairs scam. It was a scheme where people will submit false claims for a Power Wheelchair. It is a very expensive device. They will get a patient who could walk and did not need a wheelchair and send it to medicare and medicare would pay them back. Each one of these chairs cost 5,000. Medicare would pay 5,000. Sometimes it cost the supplier only about 1000 wholesale. They made 3000 or 4000 profit. It is started in the mid1990s and did not end until last...