Medicare pays for drugs for the dead

[zwiebel]

Just in time for Halloween, it's been revealed Medicare is still paying for drugs for dead people - and it's costing living taxpayers big money. Investigations from just a tiny sample of deceased patients revealed unnecessary spending of nearly $300,000.

' A report coming out Friday from the Health and Human Services Department's inspector general says the Medicare rule allows payment for prescriptions filled up to 32 days after a patient's death — at odds with the program's basic principles, not to mention common sense.'

' Investigators examined claims from 2012 for a tiny sliver of Medicare drugs — medications to treat HIV, the virus that causes AIDS — and then cross-referenced them with death records. They found that the program paid for drugs for 158 beneficiaries after they were already dead. The cost to taxpayers: $292,381, an average of $1,850 for each beneficiary.'

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/apnewsbreak-medicare-bought-meds-dead-people-26593921

 

[TrackerSam]

That's only for those who promise to vote Democrat after they die.

 

[sweetheart29]

Now if we can get it to pay for the living.

 

[AlwaysShocked]

This is probably the pharmacies raking it in for those "automatically filled" prescriptions. And you know damn well they put those pills back in stock.