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Bush administration's Medicare fraud.(Insider Report)(Brief Article)

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"The Department of Health and Human Services [HHS] has been ordered by the Government Accountability Office [GAO] to recover the salary paid former Medicare administrator Thomas A. Scully, because he ordered a staff member to withhold information about the costs of the new Medicare bill from Congress," reported the Medical News wire service on September 7.

The GAO report, which had been requested by Senator Frank R. Lautenberg (D-N.J.), relied on factual findings compiled by the HHS's Office of Inspector General. The OIG's inquiry found that Scully ordered his subordinate, Richard S. Foster, "not to provide information to [congressional] members and staff, and that Mr. ...

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