Medicare pays Big Pharma for prescription drugs up to 32 days after patient is dead

‘American taxpayers are being taken out to the woodshed by the federal government’s Medicare program, which was recently exposed for reimbursing drug prescriptions for dead people. Reports indicate that the fraudulent system currently allows payments for prescriptions filled up to 32 days after a patient has already died, costing taxpayers millions of dollars.

A report issued by the Department of Health and Human Services’ (DHS) inspector general found that the policy, which was meant to cover hospitals and care centers that bill for prescriptions in bulk at the end of the month, is being widely abused. Expensive drugs like those for HIV and AIDS, for instance, are often billed even after a patient has died.’

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