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Uploaded by on Aug 8, 2008

Health company Kyphon has been accused of overcharging Medicare by forcing osteoporosis patients to stay overnight in hospitals for a simple one-hour procedure. Sharyl Attkisson investigates.

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  • Medicare Fraud: (Goole) Vera P. Hill and Maurice Lawrence. Ms. Lawrence has falsified records, took over Vera P. Hill's house, rented it out, while Vera (93 yrs old) is in a nursing home. Culver West Convalescent. Los Angeles, Calif. address is 2722 43rd Place. It's been reported and nothing has happen. Vera P. Hill is a retired school teacher with dementia and several accounts.

  • "Lured by easier money and shorter prison sentences, Mafia figures and other violent criminals are increasingly moving into Medicare fraud and spilling blood over what was once a white-collar crime.

    Around the nation, federal investigators have been threatened, an informant's body was found riddled with bullets, and a woman was discovered dead in a pharmacy under investigation, her throat slit with a piece of broken toilet seat. " Mafia, Violent Criminals Turn to Medicare Fraud 10/6/9 MSNBC

  • Health Company like Kyphon is not the only one padding the bills. All hospitals in the USA are guilty of this fraudulent practice.

    Have you ever been in a hospital? Have you ever wondered why the nurses are complaining about being overburdened, yet they are doing actual less nursing work? Instead, they spend most of their time in front of a computer pounding the codes of the padded services, materials and medicines that may have not even been administered or rendered to you as a patient?

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