{"id":25727,"date":"2025-04-10T13:53:12","date_gmt":"2025-04-10T13:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=25727"},"modified":"2025-04-10T14:24:35","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T14:24:35","slug":"have-you-seen-examples-of-health-care-fraud-waste-or-abuse-tell-us-about-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=25727","title":{"rendered":"Have you seen examples of health care fraud, waste or abuse? Tell us about it."},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<p id=\"article-summary\" class=\"css-79rysd e1wiw3jv0\">New York Times reporters are looking into cases of unnecessary and wasteful spending in government health programs.<\/p>\n<section class=\"meteredContent css-1r7ky0e\">\n<div class=\"css-s99gbd StoryBodyCompanionColumn\" data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In 2023, companies billed Medicare for hundreds of thousands of <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/02\/09\/health\/medicare-billing-scam-catheters.html\" title>urinary catheters that doctors never ordered<\/a>. The next year, doctors collected billions from the government for pricey bandages that were sometimes unneeded.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Medicare waste has wide-reaching consequences. Even if patients do not pay the bills themselves, more spending by the government insurance program can increase future premiums.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The New York Times wants to better understand what fraud, waste and abuse looks like in today\u2019s health care system. Are there other instances of wasteful spending we should be investigating? Tell us about them. We are especially interested in cases that involve federal health care programs, like Medicare, Medicaid and Veterans Affairs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">We will follow up with you before publishing any part of your response or your name.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"InteractiveBlock-1\">\n<section data-testid=\"inline-interactive\" id=\"healthcare-fraud\" data-id=\"100000010101436\" data-source-id=\"100000010101436\" class=\"interactive-content interactive-size-scoop css-174j8de\">\n<header id=\"interactive-header\" class=\"css-obecq5 interactive-header\">\n<h2 id=\"interactive-headline\" class=\"css-4hk76s interactive-headline\">Help us investigate health care waste, fraud and abuse<\/h2>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"css-17ih8de interactive-body\" data-sourceid=\"100000010101436\" id=\"embed-id-100000010101436\">\n<div id=\"formpreview\" data-host=\"www.nytimes.com\" data-transloadit-id=\"a1ed58c066d211e5a6ee236a7c31b84b\" data-transloadit-signature=\"6d0f2cdf7ef5011a19f40f3a74b9ccb6b018cef4\" data-reader-facing-places-api-key=\"AIzaSyD18AYwwKzbkCE5iHLGDY4qMXaBaIkMIBg\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Times reporters are looking into cases of unnecessary and wasteful spending in government health programs.In 2023, companies billed Medicare for hundreds of thousands of urinary catheters that doctors never ordered. The next year, doctors collected billions from the government for pricey bandages that were sometimes unneeded.Medicare waste has wide-reaching consequences. Even if patients do not pay the bills themselves, more spending by the government insurance program can increase future premiums.The New York Times wants to better understand what fraud, waste and abuse looks like in today\u2019s health care system. Are there other instances of wasteful spending we should be investigating? Tell us about them. We are especially interested in cases that involve federal health care programs, like Medicare, Medicaid and Veterans Affairs.We will follow up with you before publishing any part of your response or your name.Help us investigate health care waste, fraud and abuse<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25729,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25727"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25730,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25727\/revisions\/25730"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}