Comments on: One More Doctor Quitting Practice Due to Obamacare http://prevarication.net/2010/04/one-more-doctor-quitting-practice-due-to-obamacare/ Dedicated to the exposure and preservation of prevarication in public life. Thu, 04 Aug 2011 08:45:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Etaoin Shrdlu http://prevarication.net/2010/04/one-more-doctor-quitting-practice-due-to-obamacare/comment-page-1/#comment-966 Etaoin Shrdlu Fri, 16 Apr 2010 05:05:06 +0000 http://prevarication.net/?p=4396#comment-966 Sounds like a good story, and that's all it is: an almost completely fabricated story (by the "good" doctor). The $50,000 fine is imposed for FRAUD. For example if a doctor receives an overpayment because of a false statement, and knows it, and doesn't report it and return the money, THEN the doctor will be penalized "$50,000 for each false statement or misrepresentation of a material fact)". So, if this fine for FRAUD is what the doctor means when he talks about "punitive measures for physicians not following government-prescribed treatment methods", one can only wonder how he practices medicine! Sounds like a good story, and that’s all it is: an almost completely fabricated story (by the “good” doctor). The $50,000 fine is imposed for FRAUD. For example if a doctor receives an overpayment because of a false statement, and knows it, and doesn’t report it and return the money, THEN the doctor will be penalized “$50,000 for each
false statement or misrepresentation of a material
fact)”.

So, if this fine for FRAUD is what the doctor means when he talks about “punitive measures for physicians not following government-prescribed treatment methods”, one can only wonder how he practices medicine!

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