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26 doctors averaged $3M each performing surgery patients didn't need. That's not fraud — it's a business model.

Twenty-six physicians averaged $3 million each in Medicare reimbursements — not for treating sick patients, but for performing invasive vascular procedures on people with mild disease who, according to every major medical society, should have received conservative management first. That is not a billing irregularity.

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NATIONAL4d ago

More Than $100 Million Was Billed for Medically Questionable Vascular Procedures, Government Watchdog Finds

The Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General released a report finding that approximately $105 million in Medicare payments in 2023 were billed for vascular procedures that appear medically unnecessary or questionable.

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ProPublica found the fraud. The government had five years and missed it.

The most damning detail in this entire report isn't the $105 million figure — it's that ProPublica found it first. A nonprofit newsroom, not CMS, not HHS-OIG, not any of the federal apparatus consuming hundreds of billions in administrative overhead, had to do the investigative work before the government's own watchdog moved.

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