The high cost of ‘free’ unnecessary medical equipment
Yul Ejnes, MD, MACP, a member of ACP Internist's editorial board, continues his monthly column at KevinMD.com about durable medical equipment-related fraud and abuse.
Yul Ejnes, MD, MACP, a past chair of ACP's Board of Regents, a practicing internist in Cranston, R.I., and a member of ACP Internist's editorial board, continues his monthly column at KevinMD.com.
In his latest post, Dr. Ejnes looks at durable medical equipment-related fraud and abuse and what physicians and patients can do to prevent it.
“Patients should keep in mind that not everything that Medicare covers is medically necessary, just as not everything that is medically necessary is covered by Medicare,” Dr. Ejnes writes.