Dr Margaret Vaux Has Exposed A Problem With Health Department / Medicare Technology!

Last Monday the ABC and The Nine News Outlets made a big splash with the following headlines:‘Medicare is haemorrhaging’: The rorts and waste costing taxpayers billions of dollars a yearByAdele Ferguson and Chris GillettOctober 17, 2022 — 5.00amBillions of dollars are being rorted from Medicare each year by medical practitioners making mistakes or charging for services that aren ’t necessary or didn’t even happen – including billing dead people and falsifying patient records to boost profits.The revelations come as GPs lobby the federal Labor government to boost Medicare funding and increase rebates, claiming the system is in crisis as patients struggle to find a bulk-billing doctor.A joint investigation by The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and the ABC ’s7.30 program has uncovered flaws in Medicare ’s systems that make it easy to rort and almost impossible to detect fraud, incorrect payments and errors.The leakage is estimated by some to represent nearly 30 per cent of Medicare ’s annual budget, or about $8 billion a year. The rorting, which continues largely unpunished, includes a doctor caught in February charging for dead people in aged care homes, a doctor prescribing drug addicts with oxycodone without due care and radiologists over-servicing terminally ill cancer patients.The fraud and waste have been allowed to occur for decades despite repeated warnings to successive governments from experts, including Margaret Faux, who has a PhD in Medicare claim...

Source: Australian Health Information Technology - October 23, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs