Accusations that doctors rort $8 billion a year from Medicare trigger govt investigation
Federal Minister for Health Mark Butler has commissioned a review of Medicare compliance programs, including the PSR
Doctors have been accused of rorting $8 billion annually from Medicare in a series of front-page news stories, leading the Federal Government to announce a review of its compliance programs.
The claim, published in Nine Newspapers and on the ABC but rubbished by doctors groups, is based on estimates by Dr Margaret Faux (PhD), the CEO of a medical billing administration company Synapse Medical.
The reporters say they have “uncovered flaws in Medicare’s systems that make it easy to rort and almost impossible to detect fraud, incorrect payments and errors”.
“The leakage is estimated to represent nearly 30 per cent of Medicare’s annual budget, or about $8 billion a year.”
