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Love this story. How many years has this been going on? What took them so long?
Approximately 150 federal and state law enforcement agents launched a massive raid on one of the biggest perpetrators of government fraud in America: The Scooter Store. Yes, that's right. The nation's largest provider of single-person electric vehicles and power chairs is the target of a federal investigation, probably because many of the people who ride around their "personal mobility devices" don't actually need them.
The company even has a special department devoted to getting chairs for patients who had already been ruled ineligible by Medicare. No doubt the pressure comes because their ads guarantee that the chair will be free if they can't get you qualified.
Is The Scooter Store the one that advertises, as doing all the paperwork for you and have the people saying, absolutley no cost to me? Hoverround and Scooter Store commericials all run together for me.
My question is: What came first, the scooter or the overweight/disabled person? Did the person become overweight/disabled because they rode in the scooter too much or were they overweight/disabled to begin with necessitating the scooter?
Since when is "railroading doctors" illegal? The entire pharmaceutical business is predicated on "railroading doctors" but I don't see too many RX sales employees going to jail for it.
It seems to me that the Medicare/Medicaid/SSDI folks who approved the funding release to purchase the chairs are just as culpable. Afterall, how does the Scooter Store get paid if not for those writing it checks?
Since when is "railroading doctors" illegal? The entire pharmaceutical business is predicated on "railroading doctors" but I don't see too many RX sales employees going to jail for it.
Since they haven't been charged with "railroading", as usual I don't know what you are ranting about as I suspect that you don't either.
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It seems to me that the Medicare/Medicaid/SSDI folks who approved the funding release to purchase the chairs are just as culpable. Afterall, how does the Scooter Store get paid if not for those writing it checks?
Since I have no doubt that you would be the first to scream about government death panels one would suspect that you also wouldn't support the establishment of government panels to reexamine patients after their doctors insisted that their patients require this or that treatment or care.
Of course with a national healthcare system such frauds would be greatly minimized since physicians would have no incentive to succumb to vendor or patient pressures for this or that treatment... but we won't go there today.
Reminds me of the guy from Illinois who sold repackaged penis pumps ($26 cost) to Medicare patients (sold for $284) targeting diabetes and arthritis patients. Gary Winner.
Since they haven't been charged with "railroading", as usual I don't know what you are ranting about as I suspect that you don't either.
Since I have no doubt that you would be the first to scream about government death panels one would suspect that you also wouldn't support the establishment of government panels to reexamine patients after their doctors insisted that their patients require this or that treatment or care.
Of course with a national healthcare system such frauds would be greatly minimized since physicians would have no incentive to succumb to vendor or patient pressures for this or that treatment... but we won't go there today.
That's my point. Since when is "railroading" illegal? Did you read the article? Can anyone show us what the Scooter Store has done wrong? So why should the term "railroading" even be brought forth if in fact it's not illegal to begin with? Does it even have a definition? Hell, even the government reduced the amount of $$$ the company would have to pay back in "overpayments" it received. There is no evidence of a crime here. Did you realize that?
You've been on the forum long enough that I am a huge proponent of eradicating fraud, waste, and abuse in government. In this case, the Department of Health and Human Services is just as culpable as the Scooter Store because that's who authorized the "overpayments" to begin with.
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