Indeed; being disabled, I'm on Medicare rather early for it, and I get informed of everything that's billed and associated with me for Medicare Part B, doctor's

Indeed; being disabled, I'm on Medicare rather early for it, and I get informed of everything that's billed and associated with me for Medicare Part B, doctor's office etc. sorts of things (haven't had to go to the hospital so I don't know about the original Part A). I also have deductibles to pay, including before my Medigap insurance kicks in. That said, they could be billing fictitious people, or people sick enough the extra stuff is easy to miss with all the other charges ... and that's very possibly how many of these fraudulent outfits were found. There are plenty of us with personalities in the direction of OCD, my 79 year old mother for instance, who's I'll admit is pretty healthy and was a RN before I was born, wouldn't miss anything. Last time I was in the ER for a nasty fall I later called them up to query a charge of $90 for a TDa?P inoculation, and was satisfied with their explanation that they had to keep plenty of non-expired medicines on hand for everything, including unexpected events. In their case, they had been the primary hospital that received the injured from the 9/11 attack on the Pentagon, and closer to home, a lot more people would have died than the ~160 in the EF-5 tornado that hit my home town and took out the other hospital, if they hadn't had ample supplies (see http://stormdoctor.blogspot.com/2011/06/first-response-mode-may-22-2011-joplin.html http://stormdoctor.blogspot.com/2011/06/first-response-mode-... for an idea of just how intense that was)