Medicaid Fraud

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I’m afraid the fraud is everywhere. Saw this article from Ohio. Before it’s all said & done, I’ll guess 30% or more of Medicaid goes to fraud.

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Meanwhile, my mother-in-law, who easily qualifies for Medicaid, gets denied every year at renewal. Then we have to go through the run around of an appeal and they say “oops we made a mistake”. It isn’t a mistake if you do it 3 years in a row. They are banking that many elderly people on Medicaid don’t have the means or the sense to fight their decisions. If my wife and I didn’t help my mother-in-law, she would lose her Medicaid benefits. It’s so frustrating.

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Sounds like they’re all qualified to run for Senate

PolitiFact | Rick Scott ‘oversaw the largest Medicare fraud’ in U.S. history, Florida Democratic Party says PolitiFact | Rick Scott 'oversaw the largest Medicare fraud' in U.S. history, Florida Democratic Party says

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Yeah, I’m listening to Malcom Gladwell’s book, “Revenge of the Tipping Point”. One of the studies in the book involves Philip Esformes, who committed the largest Medicare fraud in history, and was in league with a certain Mr. Scott at times.

Great book, BTW, if you like stuff like Freakonomics.

Didn’t know Gladwell coined the phrase, The Tipping Point, based on his writing on realtors and racial makeup of neighborhoods.

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Interesting article, obviously an introduction for a series of articles so it doesn’t give a whole lot of details.

I did find one thing mentioned odd:

A landlord who bought airplanes after renting space to hundreds of home health care companies that billed Medicaid a quarter of a billion dollars.

Have to wait to see what is published on details and I guess the landlord is in effect taking advantage of Medicaid indirectly. But I don’t see anything particularly troublesome with a landlord renting to companies looking rent space. Don’t see anything particularly wrong with someone who makes their money in real estate buying airplanes either. So, I don’t know if he was willfully blind to the fraud, or just not responsible for investigating the business of the people he rents to, or what. Have to wait and see.

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