Medicare abuse involves improper billing or unnecessary services. Medicare fraud involves falsifying claims. The main difference is intent, abuse is often done without intent. Medicare abuse and fraud ...

Highly touted efforts to cut health care spending, such as the recently passed One Big Beautiful Bill Act, ignore the real ...

Medicare abuse generally happens when illegal practices cause unnecessary billing costs for the insurance program. Several types of Medicare abuse exist. This article describes Medicare abuse, the ...

Medicare fraud is when a person knowingly submits false information or misuses the Medicare system to achieve personal financial gain or to receive benefits for which they are ineligible. Medicare has ...

The cost of prescription drugs, home care and other medical expenses is one less thing to worry about thanks to Medicare, which assists people aged 65 and older with their medical costs. Unfortunately ...

Protect Medicaid signs light up at protect Medicaid lights up the U.S. Capitol amid a budget showdown on May 7, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Leigh Vogel/Getty Images) We find ourselves in an ...

The MarketWatch News Department was not involved in the creation of this content. ALBANY, N.Y., May 20, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Fraud costs Medicare an estimated $60 billion per year according to the New ...

The Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) recently issued a report focused on what it characterized as ...

Responding to charges that President Donald Trump's tax and spending bill would cut Medicaid coverage for millions of Americans, Trump administration officials misleadingly counter that it targets ...

The ACA subsidies, which expire at the end of this year, were a source of conflict during the 43-day government shutdown.

To preserve tax cuts for the richest Americans, Republicans plan to add almost $3 trillion to the national debt and make deep cuts to a wide range of government programs. Medicaid is a prime target.