Medicare is under intense scrutiny because of its $519 billion annual budget, which is estimated to balloon to nearly a trillion dollars in 2020 as the boomers age into the program. That kind of money sloshing around the system has made Medicare fraud one of the nation’s top white-collar crimes. Fraudulent billing may have siphoned off nearly 40 percent of those billions.
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