
|Articles|November 30, 2012
Audit Finds Billions in Unverified Medicare Spending
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Medicare has paid doctors and hospitals billions of dollars to switch from paper to electronic health records without verifying that the new systems meet required quality standards, according to a federal audit released Thursday.
The funds, which total $4 billion, have been distributed since 2011 under an incentive program aimed at encouraging various types of medical providers to computerize their record-keeping systems.
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Source: The Washington Post
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