CFPB and CMS Take Action to Stop Illegal Billing of Lowest-Income Medicare Recipients
“The agencies’ joint statement emphasizes that Traditional Medicare providers and suppliers, Medicare Advantage providers and suppliers, and debt collectors can be sanctioned by CMS or be liable under federal law for improperly billing these recipients.”
Medicare contractors and proxies “can be sanctioned” for squeezing $$ out of poor people. But will the federal government follow through and enforce the law?
Senate Report Shows How Medicare Advantage Giants Lie to Seniors and Deny Health Care – CEPR