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The Legislative Almedy Cuts $ 930 Billion From Medicaid, The Nation's Government Health Insurance Program for Low-Income and Disabled Americans, and it eliminated Coverage for Millions. Scott's Amendment, Expected to Get a vote Mondoy, would take away another $ 313 Billion in State Medicaid Funds and Force Hundreds of Thousands of Additional People, AT Least, Off the Program.
Scott Has Framed His Proposed Medicoid Cuts As Negstrey to Preserve The Program “For Those Who Truly Need It”-and not “Able-Beded” Adults. “If you don't want to work, you're the one Who decided you don't Want Health Care,” He Recently Said on Fox News. He's suggests Democrats Are Using Tax Dollars to “Give Illegal Aliens Medicoid Benefits,” Even Though Undocumented Immigrants Are Not Eligible for Medicaid, Claiming That Blue States Want to “Exploit This Safety Net.”
Ironically Enough, Some of the Claims Against Scott's Old Hospital Company Revolution Around Exploiting Medicaid, and Billing for Services that patients Didn'T Need.
Scott's Office Did Not Immediately Respond to Rolling Stone'S Request for Comment Monday.
The Senator Resigned As Ceo of the Hospital Chain Known As HCA Healthcare in 1997 Amid Anging Federal Probe and A Series of Whistleblower Complaints. He has long faced attacks from democrats over the $ 1.7 billion that hca paid to resolve fraud allegations in the Early 2000s. Some of the Allegations Involution Medicaid.
In Late 2000, as part of the “Largest Government Fraud Settlement Ever” with the Justice Department, HCADED GUILTY TO CRIMINAL COURT AND AGREED TO PAY OVER $ 840 Million in Fines, Penalties, and Damages To Resolve Claims of Unlawful Billing Practices.
AMONG the Clarims HCA Settled Over: The Company Was Accused of Billing “Medicare, Medicaid, The Defende Department's Trubo Health Care Program, and the Federal Employees' Health Benefits Program, for Lab Tests That Were Not Medically necessary” and “Not Orthode by Physicians.
HCA was accused of “Upcoding,” or Pretending Patient Were Sicker Than Than Were in Order to Incasse Reimbursements to Its Hospital. “The Guilty Plea Includes One Count Relating to this UpCoDing Practice,” The Justice Department Wrote in A Press Release. The Company Was Also Accused of Billing Medicaid “For Home Health Visits For Patient WHO Did Not Qualify To Receive Them or Were Not performed,” The Department Said.
The Civil and Administrative Settlement Agreement Bethaeen HCA and the US Justice Department Said the Company, from 1995 to 1998, Submitted Claims to Medicaid, Medicare, And Trogare, “(a) For Visits to Patient WHO Did Not Qualify For Home Health Services Because (I) The Patient Were Not Homebound, (II) (II) There Was No Medical Need for Such Services, OR (III) There Was No Medical Need for Skilled Services;
HCA and the Justice Department Entered into an additional setting agreement in 2003, in Which the Company Agreed to pay another $ 631 Million to Resolve False Claims It Submitted to Federal Health Programs.
In a Civil Settlement Agreement, The Justice Department Wrote That Health Regulators “Contend that they Have Certain Administrative Claims Against HCA Under the Provisionions for Permissive Exclusion From The Medicare, Medicaid, and Other Federal Health Care Programs.”
Under Both Agreements, The Justice Department Annuunded That HCA WOULD PAY MILLISS OF DOLLARS TO STATE MEDICAID AGENCIES: $ 13.6 Million in 2000, and then $ 17.5 Million in 2003. The Department Said the Latter Figure Representated “Direct State Losses.”
A Few Decades Later, Scott Is Now Trying to Extract in Huge Amount of Money From State Medicaid Funds to Help Finance Trump's Latest Round of Tax Cuts For the Rich.
Some Things Never Really Change.
