Source: New York Post
WASHINGTON — House Republicans are demanding records from a Florida-based organ procurement center after a whistleblower alleged a possible Medicare fraud scheme involving staff members overbilling for work hours and improperly reimbursing for personal costs or other expenses. The House Ways and Means Committee fired off a letter Thursday to the Life Alliance Organ Recovery about the purported scheme, also citing a troubling report involving a patient who had also been kicked off life support but was still “crying and biting on his breathing tube” as clinicians “waited for death. ” “One Life Alliance employee interpreted” the response “as the patient not wanting to die,” stated the letter sent by Ways and Means Chairman Jason Smith (R-Mo.
