What Medicare pays for the item: $900-plus. A federal report released Wednesday offers a look at how wasteful spending drives up health care costs as investigators found that Medicare paid $919 on ...

Mysterious packages are popping up on Medicare recipients’ doorsteps and the Federal Trade Commission said it’s part of a rising scam. "That’s a back brace,” Anna Miller, a 94-year-old Medicare ...

Medicare paid an average of $919 for beneficiaries’ back braces between 2010 and 2011 — four times greater than the average $191 cost to suppliers, according to a report from the HHS Office of the ...

A Florida nursing assistant who sent thousands of unnecessary orthotic braces to Medicare patients was convicted Thursday in an $11.4 million fraud scheme built on fake doctors’ orders and hidden ...