tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2004 Issue 13

Medicare Reform: Scandal Over Withheld Information Plagues Medicare

CMS actuary says he was threatened with firing if he released numbers.Chief Medicare actuary Richard Foster says he believes the White House was involved in threats to fire him last year if he revealed analyses showing that Medicare legislation would cost substantially more than the $395 billion over 10 years projected by the Congressional Budget Office. It was well known during last year's Medicare debate that Foster's shop at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services thought the bills being debated by the House and Senate would be more expensive than CBO was indicating. However, had Foster's...

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