billion-dollar annual overcharge for Medicare equipment

July 8, 2008 at 7:25 am | In Uncategorized | Leave a Comment

The firms that have been enjoying the billion-dollar annual overcharge for Medicare equipment goosed up their campaign donations to key lawmakers, hired lobbyists, and are moving a bill through congress to kill a open-bidding program The pilot program saved 26 percent, for a projected savings of a billion dollars.

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