Yesterday, I wrote about the Florida ophthalmologist who was paid 21 million dollars by Medicare last year. The figure was ridiculously high, but the government paid the cash out anyway. I am sure it did not hurt that the doctor is a major contributor to Democrats and a personal friend of New Jersey senator Bob Menendez. Today, a bit more information came out regarding the payments.
It is being reported that Dr. Melgin got paid $320 each for some 37,075 injections he claims he delivered during the year to 645 patients. That comes to 57 injections per patient or more than one per week. More important, however, if Melgin worked eight hours per day for five days per week during fifty weeks, it comes to 18.5 injections each hour during the year. That means one injection roughly every three minutes.
Is there anyone out there who believes that there was a line of elderly people in the doctor's office who shuffled in and out each three minutes for the entire day only to get an injection in their eyes? And remember, putting aside all these injections, the doctor billed Medicare for about another ten million dollars during the year. The government should have investigated this guy long ago even if he is a big Democrat contributor.
It is being reported that Dr. Melgin got paid $320 each for some 37,075 injections he claims he delivered during the year to 645 patients. That comes to 57 injections per patient or more than one per week. More important, however, if Melgin worked eight hours per day for five days per week during fifty weeks, it comes to 18.5 injections each hour during the year. That means one injection roughly every three minutes.
Is there anyone out there who believes that there was a line of elderly people in the doctor's office who shuffled in and out each three minutes for the entire day only to get an injection in their eyes? And remember, putting aside all these injections, the doctor billed Medicare for about another ten million dollars during the year. The government should have investigated this guy long ago even if he is a big Democrat contributor.
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