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Waste Of The Day: Medicare Paid For Wrong Organs
Waste Of The Day: Medicare Paid For Wrong Organs
Authored by Jeremy Portnoy via RealClearInvestigations,
Medicare spent an estimated $380 million acquiring human organs that were either transplanted into patients without Medicare or never transplanted at all, according to a new Department of Health and Human Services inspector general audit.
Key facts: Medicare reimburses hospitals for removing kidneys, hearts, lungs and other organs from donors after they die. Federal law says Medicare should only bear those costs when the organ is used in a Medicare-covered transplant.
But decades-old Centers for Medicare & Medicaid...
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