Dr Nick Coatsworth has responded to reports that Medicare is being ripped off by around $8billion every year by saying fraud is simple under the system and the problem can t be ignored.
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A bombshell report revealed that rampant Medicare fraud costs taxpayers $8 billion a year as doctors falsify records, do unnecessary procedures and even bill dead people.
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