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lpkayak
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http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/12/05/cbsnews_investigates/main2232021.shtml

(headline)Feds Target Health Care Provider For Fraud

(last paragraph)Omnicare Has Agreed To Pay $100 Million In Last Two Months To Settle Medicare Fraud Cases In 42 States

gee...how much doxy does $100 million buy???

How big of a rip-off is it? Estimates are that up to 10 percent of government spending on Medicaid and Medicare is lost to fraud every year. That's about $50 billion of your tax dollars.

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Posts: 13712 | From new england | Registered: Feb 2004 | IP: Logged |

notcrazykate
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Member # 10458

posted

I heard a discussion on NPR about the ethics and problems of researchers taking money and perks from pharma companies.

I've been searching for it and can't find it. Too bad, it was a good one.

Does anybody have any hints for finding NPR transcripts? This has befuddled me before. I'll have to start writing down when I hear these things!

Anyway, this and the NPR piece I heard and the senior scientist at the NIH... could all of this indicate a snowball effect?

An understanding of the ripeness of this situation for independent investigation and research?

I sure hope so; it can only be a matter of time before the lid is blown off!

Posts: 106 | From Michigan | Registered: Oct 2006 | IP: Logged |

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