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A federal inspector general is expected to chastise Medicare early next week for its poor handling of a 2006 audit of fraud in the medical equipment industry and order a series of fixes to help prevent hundreds of millions of dollars in annual losses. In a final report, the inspector general at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services will likely instruct Medicare to confirm in its audits of claims payments that doctors actually prescribed equipment, providers delivered it and patients received it. A summary of the inspector general’s draft report, obtained by The Miami Herald, took Medicare to task for telling its auditors to check on equipment providers’ paperwork but to skip verifying medical and patient records.
Inspector general to chastise Medicare By Jay Weaver The Miami Herald Publication: The Miami Herald (Florida) Date: Saturday, August 23 2008 Aug. 23–A federal inspector general is expected to chastise Medicare early next week for its poor handling of a 2006 audit of fraud in the medical equipment industry and order a series of fixes to help prevent hundreds of millions of dollars in annual losses. In a final report, the inspector general at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services will likely instruct Medicare to confirm in its audits of claims payments that doctors actually prescribed equipment, providers delivered it and patients received it. A summary of the inspector general’s draft report, obtained by The Miami Herald, took Medicare to task for telling its auditors to check on equipment providers’ paperwork but to skip verifying medical and patient records. Medical officials “orally instructed [auditors] to deviate from written policies by making determinations based prim
