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Auditor "shocked" by massive billing schemes at rural hospitals
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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Edited | RP May 16, 2018 04:31pm |
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| Category | Investigation |
| News Date | Wednesday, May 16, 2018 12:45:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Rural hospitals across the country are closing at the highest rates in decades. Since 2010, 83 have shuttered. Desperate to stay open, some hospitals got caught up in dubious billing schemes. In March, CBS News investigated questionable billing at rural hospitals in Georgia and Florida.
Insurance companies reimburse rural hospitals at higher rates to help keep critical healthcare in those communities. Those higher rates have made rural hospitals attractive targets for schemes that have generated nearly half a billion dollars in allegedly fraudulent billing.
"Essentially the hospital appeared to act as a shell company for these questionable lab billings," Galloway explained. "In a six-month period, the hospital funneled through about $92 million in revenues. To put that in perspective, the previous year their total revenues were $7.5 million." |
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