The overall rate of inaccurate claims payments increased since last year among leading commercial health insurers, according to the American Medical Association's fourth annual national health insurer report card. The association says commercial health insurers have an error rate of 19.3 percent, an increase of 2 percent compared to last year. That increase represents an extra 3.6 million in erroneous claims payments compared to last year, and added an estimated $1.5 billion in unnecessary administrative costs to the health system. The AMA estimates that eliminating health insurer claim payment errors would save $17 billion.
WASHINGTON - A review of Medicare payments to suppliers of wheelchairs, oxygen machines and other medical equipment showed nearly three in 10 were made in error - about four times the rate previously cited by the federal government, investigators said Monday. A payment error occurs when Medicare's contractors reimburse suppliers despite insufficient documentation or wrong coding. An error does not necessarily mean the government was defrauded, but it can leave the program more susceptible to fraud and abuse.
Republican incumbent Chris Collins and Democratic challenger Mark C. Poloncarz are locked in a razor-thin battle for county executive, according to a new Siena College Research Institute poll commissioned by The Buffalo News and WGRZ-TV Channel 2. The survey shows Collins leading 49 to 46 percent, which is within the margin for error of 3.4 percent and is considered a statistical tie. The results, which the Siena pollsters labeled "surprising" given Collins' advantages in finances and incumbency, are almost certain to shake up a so-far sleepy contest as Poloncarz demonstrates a new viability.
If you go Where: Exhibition Coal Mine, 513 Ewart Ave., Beckley When: April 1-Nov. 1. Open daily 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Last underground tour 5:30 p.m. Cost: Adults $20, children $12. Info: 304-256-1747 www.beckley.org/exhibitioncoalmine Even though it handed out more than $10 million in improper payments last fiscal year, West Virginia is one of the top states in the nation in wringing out fraud and errors in its unemployment compensation system. Last week, the Wall Street Journal analyzed new data from the U.S. Department of Labor detailing erroneous payments in state unemployment systems and found that West Virginia had ranked fifth for least payments made in error. Nationally, $5.7 billion of the $50.9 billion in unemployment claim payments made between July 2010 and June 2010 were found...
This election season, the race for governor of Oregon is one of the tightest in the state and the nation. A poll released Wednesday by Davis, Hibbitts and Midghall for several Portland area news outlets had Republican Chris Dudley leading Democrat John Kitzhaber 45 percent to 42 percent. The percentage difference is within a 4.4 percent margin of error. The candidates come from different backgrounds and have different plans for how to lead Oregon. Reporters for the Daily Journal of Commerce recently spoke with Dudley and Kitzhaber about their thoughts on some issues of interest to our readership.
WASHINGTON - Army Reserve payroll procedures for activated soldiers are so convoluted that mistakes occurred in 95 percent of the cases examined by congressional auditors, the Government Accountability Office said Monday. Soldiers sent to Iraq and Afghanistan have had to spend a year or more straightening out problems affecting their pay, allowances and tax benefits, the GAO said.
BANGOR - Two more gubernatorial polls released Friday confirmed what other recent polls have shown: The race is still Republican Paul LePage's to lose, but independent Eliot Cutler has either pulled even or surged ahead of Democrat Libby Mitchell with only a few days left until Election Day. A poll of 400 voters released Friday by Pan Atlantic SMS Group had LePage at 36.8 percent, Cutler at 30.6 percent and Mitchell at 21.8 percent. Independents Shawn Moody and Kevin Scott combined for 4 percent with the remaining 7.3 percent undecided. The margin of error is 4.9 percent. The telephone survey was conducted early this week
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