Guest guest Posted April 19, 2005 Report Share Posted April 19, 2005 Up front, let me say that this post has nothing whatsoever to do with any investigation currently being conducted. What this post IS about is breaking the law and stealing money from the government, which, last time I looked, is you and me. We have been reminded by more than one that, ho-hum, investigations into reimbursement fraud are nothing new. They have gone on forever, as well they have. What seems to have been missed, however, is that the enforcement in the area of fraud against the government (people) that has taken place up to now has been, at best, sporadic, and does not seem to have been an effective deterrent to the continued fraudulent practices of many, many entities, including but certainly not limited to, EMS providers. We live in a nation where easy money is the goal of many. With the ENRON debacle, one hoped to see a change in attitudes and some quick, just, and harsh justice. We have yet to see that, although Martha was allowed to perform a little time so that she could emerge a million dollars richer and even more famous than before. When Bernie Eggers is sentenced, we may have a chance to see some good old frontier justice done. It certainly needs to be. We're still awaiting Mr. Ken Lay's trial, and we may wait forever. Having friends in high places (e.g. The White House) never hurt anybody's chances for avoiding justice. But maybe, just maybe, the time has come in the EMS environment when just paying back the money and a little fine to boot won't be good enough. Maybe, just maybe, the time is coming when these EMS crooks will get a nice little vacation to the crossbar hotel for what they've done and get to meet Bubba and Blade. Maybe people are getting tired of paying good money to white collar criminals. We'll see. Medicare/Medicaid fraud has been so easy to get away with because it's so difficult to prove. Sleazy EMS managers are not blind to this. And many of them have raised the procurement of fraudulent reimbursements to a high art, in fact establishing a culture of fraud within their organizations that is routinely perpetrated by everyone in the organization, down to the lowly EMT who writes the care form that must always state that the patient required oxygen, an IV, heart monitoring, and transport by stretcher, when they could have jogged home on their own. All of you know about that, don't you? And most of you have participated because you thought you had no choice but to go along or lose your jobs, haven't you? So the fraud continues, taking funds from honest folks and putting them into the hands of the scrotes and pusswads who run the services that practice fraud and letting them pocket the bucks while paying their unwilling co-conspirators dishwasher's wages and treating them like convicts. And since " everybody does it " even service managers who want to be honest sometimes slump to fudging a little just to make ends meet as payments and available funds dwindle. Perhaps it's time for EMS folks to take the gloves off and deal with these stinkbombs from within. There are plenty of jobs in EMS right now. Nobody ought to be afraid of getting fired for fear of not finding another job in EMS. You might even find one with an honest company. Satisfaction is only a phone call away. Consider making that call. Wouldn't it be great to be able to watch some of these scumbags do the perpwalk? Now is the time, now is the opportunity to reform what has become an industry rife with criminal conduct. Fraud is crime. People who perpetrate fraud are common criminals. Think about it. Best, Gene Gandy, JD, LP E.(Gene) Gandy POB 1651 Albany, TX 76430 wegandy1938@... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 19, 2005 Report Share Posted April 19, 2005 Well Gene, Can I come work for you? ;-) Tom --- wegandy1938@... wrote: --------------------------------- Up front, let me say that this post has nothing whatsoever to do with any investigation currently being conducted. What this post IS about is breaking the law and stealing money from the government, which, last time I looked, is you and me. We have been reminded by more than one that, ho-hum, investigations into reimbursement fraud are nothing new. They have gone on forever, as well they have. What seems to have been missed, however, is that the enforcement in the area of fraud against the government (people) that has taken place up to now has been, at best, sporadic, and does not seem to have been an effective deterrent to the continued fraudulent practices of many, many entities, including but certainly not limited to, EMS providers. We live in a nation where easy money is the goal of many. With the ENRON debacle, one hoped to see a change in attitudes and some quick, just, and harsh justice. We have yet to see that, although Martha was allowed to perform a little time so that she could emerge a million dollars richer and even more famous than before. When Bernie Eggers is sentenced, we may have a chance to see some good old frontier justice done. It certainly needs to be. We're still awaiting Mr. Ken Lay's trial, and we may wait forever. Having friends in high places (e.g. The White House) never hurt anybody's chances for avoiding justice. But maybe, just maybe, the time has come in the EMS environment when just paying back the money and a little fine to boot won't be good enough. Maybe, just maybe, the time is coming when these EMS crooks will get a nice little vacation to the crossbar hotel for what they've done and get to meet Bubba and Blade. Maybe people are getting tired of paying good money to white collar criminals. We'll see. Medicare/Medicaid fraud has been so easy to get away with because it's so difficult to prove. Sleazy EMS managers are not blind to this. And many of them have raised the procurement of fraudulent reimbursements to a high art, in fact establishing a culture of fraud within their organizations that is routinely perpetrated by everyone in the organization, down to the lowly EMT who writes the care form that must always state that the patient required oxygen, an IV, heart monitoring, and transport by stretcher, when they could have jogged home on their own. All of you know about that, don't you? And most of you have participated because you thought you had no choice but to go along or lose your jobs, haven't you? So the fraud continues, taking funds from honest folks and putting them into the hands of the scrotes and pusswads who run the services that practice fraud and letting them pocket the bucks while paying their unwilling co-conspirators dishwasher's wages and treating them like convicts. And since " everybody does it " even service managers who want to be honest sometimes slump to fudging a little just to make ends meet as payments and available funds dwindle. Perhaps it's time for EMS folks to take the gloves off and deal with these stinkbombs from within. There are plenty of jobs in EMS right now. Nobody ought to be afraid of getting fired for fear of not finding another job in EMS. You might even find one with an honest company. Satisfaction is only a phone call away. Consider making that call. Wouldn't it be great to be able to watch some of these scumbags do the perpwalk? Now is the time, now is the opportunity to reform what has become an industry rife with criminal conduct. Fraud is crime. People who perpetrate fraud are common criminals. Think about it. Best, Gene Gandy, JD, LP E.(Gene) Gandy POB 1651 Albany, TX 76430 wegandy1938@... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 19, 2005 Report Share Posted April 19, 2005 Great post Gene. This one and the one on Fraud as well. Keep up the good work. wegandy1938@... wrote: Up front, let me say that this post has nothing whatsoever to do with any investigation currently being conducted. What this post IS about is breaking the law and stealing money from the government, which, last time I looked, is you and me. We have been reminded by more than one that, ho-hum, investigations into reimbursement fraud are nothing new. They have gone on forever, as well they have. What seems to have been missed, however, is that the enforcement in the area of fraud against the government (people) that has taken place up to now has been, at best, sporadic, and does not seem to have been an effective deterrent to the continued fraudulent practices of many, many entities, including but certainly not limited to, EMS providers. We live in a nation where easy money is the goal of many. With the ENRON debacle, one hoped to see a change in attitudes and some quick, just, and harsh justice. We have yet to see that, although Martha was allowed to perform a little time so that she could emerge a million dollars richer and even more famous than before. When Bernie Eggers is sentenced, we may have a chance to see some good old frontier justice done. It certainly needs to be. We're still awaiting Mr. Ken Lay's trial, and we may wait forever. Having friends in high places (e.g. The White House) never hurt anybody's chances for avoiding justice. But maybe, just maybe, the time has come in the EMS environment when just paying back the money and a little fine to boot won't be good enough. Maybe, just maybe, the time is coming when these EMS crooks will get a nice little vacation to the crossbar hotel for what they've done and get to meet Bubba and Blade. Maybe people are getting tired of paying good money to white collar criminals. We'll see. Medicare/Medicaid fraud has been so easy to get away with because it's so difficult to prove. Sleazy EMS managers are not blind to this. And many of them have raised the procurement of fraudulent reimbursements to a high art, in fact establishing a culture of fraud within their organizations that is routinely perpetrated by everyone in the organization, down to the lowly EMT who writes the care form that must always state that the patient required oxygen, an IV, heart monitoring, and transport by stretcher, when they could have jogged home on their own. All of you know about that, don't you? And most of you have participated because you thought you had no choice but to go along or lose your jobs, haven't you? So the fraud continues, taking funds from honest folks and putting them into the hands of the scrotes and pusswads who run the services that practice fraud and letting them pocket the bucks while paying their unwilling co-conspirators dishwasher's wages and treating them like convicts. And since " everybody does it " even service managers who want to be honest sometimes slump to fudging a little just to make ends meet as payments and available funds dwindle. Perhaps it's time for EMS folks to take the gloves off and deal with these stinkbombs from within. There are plenty of jobs in EMS right now. Nobody ought to be afraid of getting fired for fear of not finding another job in EMS. You might even find one with an honest company. Satisfaction is only a phone call away. Consider making that call. Wouldn't it be great to be able to watch some of these scumbags do the perpwalk? Now is the time, now is the opportunity to reform what has become an industry rife with criminal conduct. Fraud is crime. People who perpetrate fraud are common criminals. Think about it. Best, Gene Gandy, JD, LP E.(Gene) Gandy POB 1651 Albany, TX 76430 wegandy1938@... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 19, 2005 Report Share Posted April 19, 2005 Great post Gene. This one and the one on Fraud as well. Keep up the good work. wegandy1938@... wrote: Up front, let me say that this post has nothing whatsoever to do with any investigation currently being conducted. What this post IS about is breaking the law and stealing money from the government, which, last time I looked, is you and me. We have been reminded by more than one that, ho-hum, investigations into reimbursement fraud are nothing new. They have gone on forever, as well they have. What seems to have been missed, however, is that the enforcement in the area of fraud against the government (people) that has taken place up to now has been, at best, sporadic, and does not seem to have been an effective deterrent to the continued fraudulent practices of many, many entities, including but certainly not limited to, EMS providers. We live in a nation where easy money is the goal of many. With the ENRON debacle, one hoped to see a change in attitudes and some quick, just, and harsh justice. We have yet to see that, although Martha was allowed to perform a little time so that she could emerge a million dollars richer and even more famous than before. When Bernie Eggers is sentenced, we may have a chance to see some good old frontier justice done. It certainly needs to be. We're still awaiting Mr. Ken Lay's trial, and we may wait forever. Having friends in high places (e.g. The White House) never hurt anybody's chances for avoiding justice. But maybe, just maybe, the time has come in the EMS environment when just paying back the money and a little fine to boot won't be good enough. Maybe, just maybe, the time is coming when these EMS crooks will get a nice little vacation to the crossbar hotel for what they've done and get to meet Bubba and Blade. Maybe people are getting tired of paying good money to white collar criminals. We'll see. Medicare/Medicaid fraud has been so easy to get away with because it's so difficult to prove. Sleazy EMS managers are not blind to this. And many of them have raised the procurement of fraudulent reimbursements to a high art, in fact establishing a culture of fraud within their organizations that is routinely perpetrated by everyone in the organization, down to the lowly EMT who writes the care form that must always state that the patient required oxygen, an IV, heart monitoring, and transport by stretcher, when they could have jogged home on their own. All of you know about that, don't you? And most of you have participated because you thought you had no choice but to go along or lose your jobs, haven't you? So the fraud continues, taking funds from honest folks and putting them into the hands of the scrotes and pusswads who run the services that practice fraud and letting them pocket the bucks while paying their unwilling co-conspirators dishwasher's wages and treating them like convicts. And since " everybody does it " even service managers who want to be honest sometimes slump to fudging a little just to make ends meet as payments and available funds dwindle. Perhaps it's time for EMS folks to take the gloves off and deal with these stinkbombs from within. There are plenty of jobs in EMS right now. Nobody ought to be afraid of getting fired for fear of not finding another job in EMS. You might even find one with an honest company. Satisfaction is only a phone call away. Consider making that call. Wouldn't it be great to be able to watch some of these scumbags do the perpwalk? Now is the time, now is the opportunity to reform what has become an industry rife with criminal conduct. Fraud is crime. People who perpetrate fraud are common criminals. Think about it. Best, Gene Gandy, JD, LP E.(Gene) Gandy POB 1651 Albany, TX 76430 wegandy1938@... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 20, 2005 Report Share Posted April 20, 2005 I couldn't agree more Gene. I hope the crooks get what is comming to them. McGee, EMT-I wegandy1938@... wrote: Up front, let me say that this post has nothing whatsoever to do with any investigation currently being conducted. What this post IS about is breaking the law and stealing money from the government, which, last time I looked, is you and me. We have been reminded by more than one that, ho-hum, investigations into reimbursement fraud are nothing new. They have gone on forever, as well they have. What seems to have been missed, however, is that the enforcement in the area of fraud against the government (people) that has taken place up to now has been, at best, sporadic, and does not seem to have been an effective deterrent to the continued fraudulent practices of many, many entities, including but certainly not limited to, EMS providers. We live in a nation where easy money is the goal of many. With the ENRON debacle, one hoped to see a change in attitudes and some quick, just, and harsh justice. We have yet to see that, although Martha was allowed to perform a little time so that she could emerge a million dollars richer and even more famous than before. When Bernie Eggers is sentenced, we may have a chance to see some good old frontier justice done. It certainly needs to be. We're still awaiting Mr. Ken Lay's trial, and we may wait forever. Having friends in high places (e.g. The White House) never hurt anybody's chances for avoiding justice. But maybe, just maybe, the time has come in the EMS environment when just paying back the money and a little fine to boot won't be good enough. Maybe, just maybe, the time is coming when these EMS crooks will get a nice little vacation to the crossbar hotel for what they've done and get to meet Bubba and Blade. Maybe people are getting tired of paying good money to white collar criminals. We'll see. Medicare/Medicaid fraud has been so easy to get away with because it's so difficult to prove. Sleazy EMS managers are not blind to this. And many of them have raised the procurement of fraudulent reimbursements to a high art, in fact establishing a culture of fraud within their organizations that is routinely perpetrated by everyone in the organization, down to the lowly EMT who writes the care form that must always state that the patient required oxygen, an IV, heart monitoring, and transport by stretcher, when they could have jogged home on their own. All of you know about that, don't you? And most of you have participated because you thought you had no choice but to go along or lose your jobs, haven't you? So the fraud continues, taking funds from honest folks and putting them into the hands of the scrotes and pusswads who run the services that practice fraud and letting them pocket the bucks while paying their unwilling co-conspirators dishwasher's wages and treating them like convicts. And since " everybody does it " even service managers who want to be honest sometimes slump to fudging a little just to make ends meet as payments and available funds dwindle. Perhaps it's time for EMS folks to take the gloves off and deal with these stinkbombs from within. There are plenty of jobs in EMS right now. Nobody ought to be afraid of getting fired for fear of not finding another job in EMS. You might even find one with an honest company. Satisfaction is only a phone call away. Consider making that call. Wouldn't it be great to be able to watch some of these scumbags do the perpwalk? Now is the time, now is the opportunity to reform what has become an industry rife with criminal conduct. Fraud is crime. People who perpetrate fraud are common criminals. Think about it. Best, Gene Gandy, JD, LP E.(Gene) Gandy POB 1651 Albany, TX 76430 wegandy1938@... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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