A new report by federal auditors says a Kansas-based company may have paid
out as much as $4.2 million in potentially fraudulent Medicare claims for penis pumps, and the auditors
are asking the company to refund the government the money.
The Health and Human Services inspector general said it sampled 100 claims
made with Pos-T-Vac, the Dodge City-based
penis-pump manufacturer, and found improprieties in more than half of payments
for what are known as “male vacuum erection systems.”
The errors ranged from the company’s failing to maintain proof that it
delivered the pumps to customers, to one instance when the physician’s approval
order wasn’t even signed by the doctor. More
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