'Guardrails' needed? Telehealth fraud cost Medicare $128M in first year of COVID pandemic, feds say

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'Guardrails' needed? Telehealth fraud cost Medicare $128M in first year of COVID pandemic, feds say
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A report by government investigators last week found that more-permissive remote care has come at a price.

Americans now have telehealth as an option and they like it! Buzz60’s Keri Lumm shares the results of a new study conducted by OnePoll on behalf of Kaiser Permanente.During the first year of the COVID pandemic, 1,714 doctors and health providers billed Medicare nearly $128 million in “high risk” claims, according to a new report from federal investigators.

The federal government eased telehealth requirements at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic so more Americans could get remote care with fewer obstacles.more-permissive remote care has come at a price about rising telemedicine fraud by companies that often pay kickbacks to doctors, labs and others to generate orders paid by Medicare and other federal health programs. Also in July, the Justice Department announced 36 people were charged for over $1 billion in health fraud involving telemedicine providers.

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