A judge has ruled that a health clinic in a Montana town plagued by deadly asbestos contamination must pay the government almost $6 million in penalties and damages after submitting hundreds of false asbestos claims
A judge has ruled that a health clinic in a Montana town plagued by deadly asbestos contamination must pay the government almost $6 million in penalties and damages after submitting hundreds of false asbestos claims
Sounds like an issue with the Medicare Secondary Payer Act. If the employers are already liable for the claims under workers’ comp., providers shouldn’t be billing Medicare. That’s shifting the cost of asbestos diseases onto taxpayer, instead of corporations and their insurers, who ignored the risks of asbestos and ensured their workers would die young.