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Archive Home > 2012 > December > 27 > Medicare overpaying for back braces

Medicare overpaying for back braces

By Ricardo Alonso-Aaldivar / The Bulletin
December 27, 2012

WASHINGTON — Internet sale price for a standard back brace: $99.99.

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 average for back braces that....

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