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The Hidden Fee Costing Doctors Millions Every Year – ProPublica

“The records showed, again and again, federal officials deferring not only to a single company, but to a single executive.

“Over the past five years, CMS adopted that company’s positions on fees. Shteynshlyuger discovered that, when it comes to the issue he cares about, the most powerful decision-maker wasn’t a CMS official. It was the chief lobbyist for a middleman company called Zelis. And that man just happened to be a former CMS staffer who had authored a key federal rule on electronic payments…”

Another place to drain the swamp. CMS and Congress are not doing the job.


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