Article: Senate probes Medicare billings for investigational devices.(Updata)

A Senate subcommittee has reopened its examination of hospitals' Medicare billing practices for investigational medical devices and procedures. Sen. William Roth (R-Del.), chairman of the Governmental Affairs Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, has expressed his concern over the subcommittee's findings that certain hospitals knew they were directly violating Medicare's investigational devices policy but persisted in the practice. In at least one hospital, patient consent forms were removed from the hospital's files to conceal a procedure's experimental nature. The subcommittee also found that some hospitals continued to bill Medicare for these procedures, even after ...

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