tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2004 Issue 20

DME: Feds Demonize Wheelchair Advertising In Senate

OIG paints DME industry with broad fraud brush.A festival of finger-pointing between federal agencies took place at a recent Senate hearing on power wheelchair fraud and abuse in the Medicare program, and suppliers were often the targets.  The HHS Office of Inspector General and the General Accounting Office blamed the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services for ignoring warnings of wheelchair fraud since 1997 and failing to act on the fraud until it reached mammoth proportions. And all three agencies blamed the industry for its part in the fraud."Our office has devoted considerable resources to conducting...

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