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Colorado SB 12-060 – Improve Medicaid fraud prosecution

SB 12-060 attempts to reduce Medicaid fraud. The Depart. of Health Care Policy & Financing (HCPF) has little incentive to reduce fraud, as for every CO tax dollar it spends, the Feds pay the HCPF a dollar taken from a taxpayer in another state. This is why replacing this matching this policy with a block grant would be an improvement. Continue reading

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Improving Medicaid with block grants & consumer-directed health care

If Medicaid were turned into a block grant program in which the federal government gave each state a set amount of money, it could improve patient care, restrain the growth in costs, reduce complexity and improve outcomes. Continue reading

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Why Medicare & Medicaid fraud dwarfs commercial endevours

” Politicians are spending other people’s money, so their incentive to prevent fraud is far less. Therefore, fraud will always be higher in government programs than in similar market endeavors.” Continue reading

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Entitlement Bandits Rob Medicaid/Medicare

Giving Medicare enrollees vouchers for private insurance and block-granting Medicaid (as passed by the House of Representatives but defeated in the Senate) would reduce the crushing levels of fraud in Medicare and Medicaid. Continue reading

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Colorado Medicaid errors far exceed commercial insurers’

Look forward to more costly errors at the expense of your tax dollars.  The new health control legislation (HR 3590) expands Medicaid eligibility. Linda Gorman points out that Colorado Medicaid’s error rate in paying claims is much higher than private … Continue reading

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Medicaid: poor care, rampant fraud

From a former senior official at the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, published last week in the Wall Street Journal: Accumulating medical data shows that Medicaid recipients’ poor health outcomes aren’t just a function of their underlying medical problems, … Continue reading

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