195.983 Medicare “Fraud and Abuse”:
MSSNY will urge the appropriate federal and state agencies to acknowledge that the characterization of any billing errors as “fraud” to be libelous and offensive.
MSSNY objects to the heavy handed techniques of search and seizure, with guns drawn and without formal charges levied, as tactics of a totalitarian police state;
MSSNY will demand that Congressional inquiry address these concerns, which give the perception that the physicians are “GUILTY UNTIL PROVEN INNOCENT,” with open public hearings at the earliest opportunity.
MSSNY objects to and rejects “statistical analysis” that attempt to claim that a physician’s billing or practice is aberrant by use of flawed methodologies, and will advocate to stop the use and extrapolation of this data as “fraud and abuse.
MSSNY will seek legislation, in concert with the AMA, directing the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) to remove the notations of fraud reporting announcements from all mailings to Medicare beneficiaries in order to prevent erosion of the physician/patient relationship. (HOD 2000-255; Reaffirmed HOD 2014; Reaffirmed HOD 2024)
