You have received this in the mail or you will if you take Medicare. I just spoke with my billing and Medicare is asking for a refund from all the doctors in amounts of 1 cent on a vist to 53 cents or maybe slightly more for January to April of 2010. They also sent 8 pages of paperwork. They say the physician OVERCHARGED medicare and "IS NOT WITHOUT FAULT" and other strong wording. Based on what happened by our research, this is an outrage!
CMS rep says they had not yet set their fees in 2010 until March, so they just paid at a slightly higher rate until then. Now they are demanding a refund because their new fees are slightly less. Instead of apologizing to us, they are saying it is our fault and we need to fill out 8 pages of documents on it. They are asking hundreds of thousands of doctors to fill out this paperwork, and the lost time over what amounts to just a few dollars, and furthermore their fault, is terrible when you add up the lost work across the country. I will send them the check but not the paperwork and they said this is fine. We will report them to Medicare Fraud and Abuse and possibly our Congressional Representatives.
