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Gloria Lee was diagnosed with diabetic cataracts after a nurse stopped by her Boston home for a quick checkup.
Nurses can do this? And Medicare accepts it?
Private insurance companies involved in Medicare Advantage " a government program in which private insurers oversee Medicare benefits " made hundreds of thousands of dubious diagnoses from 2018 to 2021 that triggered extra taxpayer-funded payments, according to an analysis by the Journal, and Medicare paid insurers around $50 billion for diagnoses added just by insurers to patient records.
TreFeces, I am not clear on the US health system, but isn't it "certified" doctors that diagnose patients? If there are dubious diagnoses isn't that the doctors fault?
Or is what they are doing legal?
Finally I find fault with the insurers, but the system has to be built/designed to allow this sort of thing.
How can an insurance company receive money from the government for a persons health care without receipts?
I imagine this is going on through out the governmental systems.