Bad Medicare Refunds Part of a Larger Tangle
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For more than a year, officials who run Social Security and Medicare have struggled to mesh their computer systems.
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Steps aimed at cutting Medicare fraud and payment errors in half over the next four years were announced by U.S. health officials on Monday.
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The costs of caring for elderly  people with diabetes, a growing population, are threatening to  overwhelm the system designed to pay for their medical care,  according to a new analysis of Medicare claims.
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Democrats say failed Republican policies are behind rising Medicare premiums that are leaving millions of older Americans scrambling for basic health care.
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Fraud in the $300 billion-a-year Medicaid program is widespread and the federal government is not doing enough to combat it, congressional investigators said in a report released on Wednesday.
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WASHINGTON - UnitedHealthcare will pay the federal government $3.5 million to settle allegations of fraud stemming from mishandling of telephone calls involving the Medicare program, the Justice Department announced.
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For a lot of consumers, especially come December, the line appears to be blurring between giving and receiving.
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A controversial new government report reveals seniors often get wrong information when they try to comparison shop
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The University of Washington said yesterday it overbilled the government $3.6 million during the period that was the subject of the federal investigation into its Medicare and Medicaid billing practices, an amount in sharp contrast to government estimates
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Investigators say computer security flaws could lead to the disclosure of medical information on people enrolled in Medicare and Medicaid.
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Changes to Medicare have many seniors in a tailspin. Prescription drug cards, managed care, Medigap, Part B -- they can&#39;t sort it out on their own, and the constant barrage of targeted advertisements and slick-sounding come-ons don&#39;t help.
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TechWeb - A government report is blaming a botched software project for the loss of $318 million, which the IRS mistakenly paid in bad tax refunds.
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Pharmacists say a government report released Thursday validates their concerns that payments under the Medicare drug benefit are driving some of them out of business.
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Health plans with high patient-paid  deductibles, embraced by many Republicans as a market-based  solution to quell soaring medical-care costs, lead to poorer  quality care and increasing patient debt, a study released on  Thursday said.
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With soaring medical costs imperiling Medicare and the federal government&#39;s financial health, Washington needs a straight answer to a key question: Can private companies deliver more medical services for less money than the government-run Medicare program
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The cost of living adjustment intended to help more than 47 million Social Security recipients keep up with inflation is expected to be a tad larger in 2005 than it was this year, but the bad news is that much of the increase will be eaten up by higher Medicare premiums.
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Crime may not pay, but blowing the whistle on companies that swindle the government sure can. Jim Alderson got &#36;20 million in one settlement and split &#36;100 million with another whistleblower in a related case, both involving Medicare fraud by the nation's largest for-profit hospital chain and a company it acquired.