Medicare Compliance

Uncontrolled Healthcare Spending May be a Good Thing

As the election comes up, healthcare remains one of the primary issues in the debates. While each party has their own opinions about how to revive the nation’s healthcare system, both agree that the current system’s spending cannot be sustained. Yet this same uncapped Medicare and Medicaid spending may have helped keep the middle class

Big Bucks, Big Problems

Unnecessary Power Wheelchairs Approved by Medicare Recently we learned $98 million dollars were paid by Medicare in the first half of 2007 on power wheelchairs that were deemed medically unnecessary or lacked sufficient documentation to determine medical necessity. This accounted for approximately 61% of the claims submitted in that time frame. This was a ‘news