
With Democrats like this, who needs Republicans? Cabdrollery:
At the end of September, I posted on how some private contractors for a Medicare audit had turned into bounty hunters eagerly savaging the bills of rehab hospitals providing services to Medicare beneficiaries. The audit was a trial run ordered by Congress and involved three states: California, Florida, and New York. In California, records show that the auditors routinely rejected bills (up to 90%) from those rehabilitation hospitals providing services to those who'd had total knee or total hip replacements. As a result, several of those hospitals have closed or are about to.
The private contractor doing the audit in California is PRG-Schultz. Among the investors in PRG-Schultz is Blum Capital Partners, headed by Richard Blum of San Francisco. Blum is married to Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif.
Well done, Ruth!
I love contractors. I wonder if we're doing the same thing in Iraq? I'm picturing a virtuous cycle where contractor A shoots a few civilians, contractor B denies them care on commission, then they all die, then things get all peaceful, just in time for the primaries ... Win win all around!
If you liked this post, buy the author some books.- lambert's blog
- Login or register to post comments
- 1+[CSE]+#b94+


Front page



