A University of Maryland hospital has been sued by the US of A for medical reimbursement fraud. In 2004, Kernan Hospital had zero cases of the rare, extreme form of malnutrition known as Kwashiorkor; then, by 2007, it had spiked to 287 cases, as though a hospital in Baltimore Maryland had inexplicably begun admitting droves of desperate African babies.
Here’s the lawsuit.
October 21st, 2011 at 5:01PM
Kernan had the game down pat:
Bloat your codes, get rich and fat.
On their way out the door,
Code them kwashiorkor,
And dare Medicare to figure out that.
October 21st, 2011 at 7:46PM
Excellent one, adam. Rhyming on kwashiorkor!!