An Unlikely Case of Medicare Fraud

Ironically, Medicare payments for penile pumps have risen by more than 500 percent in the last 10 years. Federal fraud investigators have been challenging the legitimacy of payments for many of these devices. The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services reports that annual expenditures for these pumps have gone up from $7.2 million in 2000 to more than $36 million in 2011. The government has uncovered rampant fraud associated with the devices. An Illinois supplier bought sex toy penile

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