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Health
Adele Ferguson and Chris Gillett

Expert estimates $8 billion a year lost to Medicare fraud and waste

Doctors are abusing the $28 billion Medicare system, at times putting patients at risk, billing dead people and falsifying patient records, all to boost profits.

A joint investigation by ABC's 7.30 program, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age has uncovered flaws in Medicare's systems that make it easy to rort and almost impossible to detect fraud, incorrect payments and errors.

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