How are they getting on Medicare?
But … but … They’re just here working hard to provide their families with a better life. /sarc/
So the interesting question is, why are the Feds enforcing this law?
Did Obama approve this? If so, why?
Yeah. Right.
Below is just a scintilla of the massive multi-billion healthcare fraud in existing programs......sap-happy O/Care's got huge pots of money and very little oversight...ready and waiting for fraudsters.
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Medicare paid millions to illegal immigrants, dead patients, probe finds
By Stephen Dinan / The Washington Times
Medicare paid $23 million for dead patients in 2011 and $29 million for drug benefits for illegal immigrants from 2009 to 2011, according to a report Thursday from the Health and Human Services inspector general.
The investigators said Medicare has safeguards to try to stop payments to dead patients, but it still ended up sending out the $23 million anyway.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) — the same agency that is struggling to fix the broken Obamacare website — acknowledged the problems and said it will try to take steps to fix them.
“We agree that in cases where the information indicates an individual is not lawfully present in the United States, that individual should not be permitted to enroll or to remain enrolled in a Part D plan during the period where he or she is not eligible to receive federal benefits,” Marilyn Tavenner, administrator of CMS, said in response to the report about illegal immigrants getting benefits.
The payouts aren’t large — they amount to just a fraction of a percent of what Medicare pays each year in benefits. Still, the investigators said the agency should take steps to crack down.
In one of its reports the inspector general said 4,139 illegal immigrants were able to make 279,056 drug benefit claims.
The investigators said that while CMS has policies to prevent illegal immigrants from getting most Medicare benefits, it didn’t have such a policy for the prescription drug program, which was added under President George W. Bush and expanded by President Obama’s health law.
As for dead patients collecting benefits, the investigators said the problems were often related to missing or incorrect dates of death.
Dead doctors also were paid $25 million over a three-year period.
Sen. Tom Coburn, Oklahoma Republican (a doctor), said the report was worrying because CMS had been warned of the problems five years earlier.“Every individual wrongfully awarded benefits, be it the deceased or undocumented, diverts scarce resources away from those who need it most,” he said.
SOURCE http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/oct/31/medicare-paid-millions-dead-patients-illegals/#ixzz2jK6Gu1dx
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LET'S DO THE MATH 4,139 illegal immigrants were able to make 279,056 drug benefit claims. That’s 67 per immigrant. Are they selling these drugs? Is that where the brand new Escalades are coming from...being driven w/out valid licenses?
......no mention of the 4 1/2 billion in tax refunds they get illegally yearly?.....but we’ll work on the 70m
This is the same CMS that tells hospitals to charge patients over $100 - for NOTHING. It’s called a facility fee that hospitals charge patients. The facilities are supposed to be for hospitals and for the use of facilities in the hospital (labs, specialists, etc.).
Here’s the problem - hospitals have expanded to include off-site doctors’ offices, labs and anyone associated with the hospital. The finance department submits two bills to Medicare - doctor’s charges and facility fee.
CMS pays on both - one for doctor’s visit and one for the facility fee. When I visit an off-site doctor, I get a bill back with the portion of doctor’s visit that is paid and a surprise.
The Christiana Hospital finance center in Delaware charged me $23 for the facility fee. Medicare paid $24.16 and said the charge should have been $102.34 and that I owed $77.18!
Long story short, CMS refuses to believe that it is an increase, insists that the charge is correct and requires me to pay the increased amount. Naturally, I REFUSE to pay. The matter is in now in collections. Good luck them trying to collect.
So beware of increased charges and facility fees. REFUSE to pay!
Read closely.
That $70 Million is over 4 YEARS.
That amounts to about $17.5 million per year.
With over 50 million illegals in the country that is about 34 cents per illegal.
Hell of a deal!!
Remember all the times,oh illegals cannot get medicare .Illegals are draining this country and very soon we will be even broker.