Dead people are being billed and patient records falsified in Medicare rorts costing us billions of dollars a year.
Billions of dollars are being rorted from Medicare each year by medical practitioners making mistakes or charging for services that aren’t necessary or didn’t even happen – including billing dead people and falsifying patient records to boost profits.
“I think most Australians believe that doctors are honest people,” Faux said. “And I’d like to think that most of them are. But the reality is anywhere where you’ve got a huge pot of money that is super easy to access, you are going to get bad actors building business models just taking the money unlawfully. And it’s a huge problem in the Medicare system.”
When Webber raised his concerns with health ministers from both sides of politics, or the federal health department, he was shut down. For comparison, that is about double the ABC’s annual taxpayer funding. Foreign aid costs about $4.5 billion a year, the Royal Australian Air Force about $7.8 billion and the CSIRO about $1.4 billion.The inappropriate billing occurs in all areas of the health sector including GPs, surgeons, pathologists, anaesthetists, radiologists and dentists who use the child dental benefit scheme.
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