I-Team: Watching Your Tax Dollars
NFL, other pro sports leagues are technically nonprofits
When you think back over that $4 million, 30-second halftime spot you chuckled at during Sunday’s Super Bowl or sit down this weekend to see which golfer takes home $1.15 million for winning the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am, ponder this: The National Football League, just like the PGA Tour, ...
RTA's overtime spending down from past years
Union and administration officials at the Dayton Area Regional Transit Authority say recent changes meant to curb overtime spending have likely placed six-figure paychecks for bus drivers in the agency’s rear-view mirror. The top-paid Dayton RTA bus driver in 2012 was Richard Smith, who made $77,400. (Another driver’s pay was ...
Cutting ‘bad debt’ payment to hospitals could save billions
Hospitals aren’t leaning hard enough on Medicare beneficiaries to pay their share of medical costs, according to a recent report. It suggests reducing what the government pays to cover such bad debt, which could pressure hospitals to bill more aggressively. This approach could save Medicare nearly $36 billion in the ...
Medicare fraudsters used UPS boxes to fleece millions from taxpayers
It took a call from the Dayton Daily News for Dr. William Carey to learn that he was CEO of a Columbus medical practice he had no idea even existed. Clues contained in a database of medical providers maintained by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services pointed toward Carey ...
International crime ring stole millions from Medicare
An elaborate, international health-care fraud ring that stole millions from taxpayers started to come unraveled when an Ohio gynecologist called investigators after receiving insurance payments for male patients. Ultimately, two California men went to federal prison in May as purported ringleaders of the operation, but not before making off with ...
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