Millions of Americans struggle with substance use disorder, with estimates suggesting as many as 1 in 13 people needed treatment in 2018. Between high demand for services and lack of regulation, this is an area of health care already rife with predatory behavior. Substance use disorder fraud was a significant problem before the COVID-19 pandemic, and it could potentially get even worse.
Colleagues Melissa Garrido and Michael Adelberg have published a piece on the Health Affairs blog about health care fraud pertaining to COVID-19. The COVID-19 epidemic
Alex Woodruff is a Policy Analyst at Boston University School of Public Health. He tweets at @aewoodru. Research for this piece was supported by the Laura
The TIE crack team of lawyers is all over Halbig, so I’m not going near it. (Seriously, @nicholas_bagley is making Austin and I look like amateur
Medicare and Medicaid have active fraud detection units that are setting records for recoveries. The HHS effort is not entirely in-house, but also partners with
A week-and-a-half ago, the D.C. Circuit upheld the criminal conviction of the owner of a clinic that bilked Medicaid out of millions of dollars: [Jacqueline]
This one is a doozy: There is almost no topic in health and health policy that immediately polarizes people more than the idea that vaccines cause
If you didn’t know it before, I’ve got a bit of a comics problem. My collection at this point probably numbers in the tens (plural)
Sam Baker has a piece on The Hill Yesterday, “GOP slams $15 billion in Medicaid overpayments“: Medicaid has shelled out billions in overpayments to certain
I’ve been asked by several readers to respond to Tyler Cowen’s extract of Yuval Levin’s post. …many of Medicare’s most significant administrative costs are just
As is typical of his work, Uwe Reinhardt’s latest paper (ungated pdf) is an enjoyable read, quite accessible, and illuminating. [Patients] are both objects of
When Congress talks about “fraud and abuse” in health care, they inappropriately lump together two quite different categories. One are criminals who bill for services
