Charges
Auburn
• Teneitra Morgan Grenier, 28, of 227 Route 126, Monmouth, disorderly conduct, 12:59 a.m. Friday at Club Texas, 150 Center St.
• Janette Rich, 21, of 15 High St., violating conditions of release, 11:05 a.m. Thursday at that address.
• Roger Cornell, 67, of 250 Hackett Road, violating conditions of bail, 8:26 p.m. Thursday at the police station.
• Kyle M. Baril, 18, of 50 Maplewood Lane, Greene, domestic violence assault and criminal mischief, 5:30 p.m. Sunday at 603 Center St.
• Billy-Jack Gagnon, 33, of 370 Mill St., unspecified warrant, 9:27 p.m. Sunday at 378 Mill St.
• Jared Scott Kuvaja, 25, of 24 Hillsdale, unspecified warrant, 10:23 p.m. Sunday at Lake and Linden streets.
• Sabrina J. Sevigny, 22, of 206 Westview Drive, Sanford, assault, 9:53 a.m. Sunday at Roy's Allsteak Hamburgers, 5 Washington St.
Lewiston
• Michael Francis Gallo, 23, of 397 Bates St. warrants charging failure to appear in court on a charge of operating after suspension and failure to pay fine on a charge of assault, 5:45 a.m. Monday at 297 Bates St.
• Benjamin Ayer, 18, of 27 Thorne Ave., unspecified warrant, 12:12 p.m. Thursday at College and Russell streets.
• Andrew Cramer, 20, of 50 Fairmount St., probation hold, 5:55 p.m. Thursday at that address.
• Joshua Kyle, 21, transient, unspecified warrants, 8:05 p.m. Monday at 2 River St.
• Jesse Hiscock, 27, of 173 Oak St., Lewiston, assault and trafficking in dangerous knives, 8:35 p.m. Monday at that address.
Androscoggin County.
• Daniel Enman, 34, of 130 Route 133, Wilton, driving with a suspended license and violating bail, Thursday on Route 4, Turner, Androscoggin County Sheriff's Department.
• Christine Whitehouse, 34, of 73 Winter St., Auburn, probation hold, Thursday at Great Falls Plaza, Auburn, Office of Probation and Parole.
Accidents
Auburn
• Vehicles driven by Meredith M. Mayberry, 58, of Cumberland and Justin R. Lessard, 22, of Sabattus collided, 1 p.m. Thursday on Washington Street. Damage to Mayberry's 1992 Lexus was estimated at $5,000; to Lessard's 1998 Dodge pickup truck, $2,000. Both vehicles were towed.
• Vehicles driven by Anthony B. Brunette, 44, of Fairfield and Richard Ernest Parter, 40, of Windham collided, 11:40 a.m. Thursday on Washington Street. Damage to the 2009 Subaru driven by Brunette and owned by Jill Lynn Parlin-Roy of Fairfield was estimated at $1,500 and was towed; to the 2001 Volvo driven by Parter and owned by TNJ Auto Sales of New Gloucester, $8,000.
• Vehicles driven by Christopher T. Allyn, 32, of Lisbon, and Crystal M. Pike, 22, of Oxford, collided at 4:25 p.m. Thursday on Center Street. Damage to Allyn's 2003 Pontiac 4-door estimated at $2,000; to Pike's 2003 Pontiac 4-door, $2,000.
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That is the size of the problem. $60 billion out of about $551 billion in expenditures about 11%.
Let's understand what Medicare Fraud and Asbuse is. Medicare Fraud and Abuse is any billinging to Medicare that covers services not delivered or a service that was delivered but was unnecessary or inappropriate (given to someone not qualified for the service.
The mismatch of qualified people to services is low, technical, and almost always caught after the fact by computers. Its the error rate of medicare and will never be zero but also may reach the point where its not worth pursuing if the costs to pursue are high.
The major medicare fraud is provider mis-billing that is separated between deliberate fraud and provider billing errors. Our Speaker of the House can speak to this since he misbilled Medicare by $1.6 million. He claims it was an error (billing for one class of product when really a different class was provided). Most of the provider errors are caught in the billing process. What remains is deliberate fraud.
For the first time and about time, the Obama administration has elevated Medicare Fraud and Abuse to a cabinet position. The HEAT team of cabinet officers was established in 2009 to specifically address and presecute deliberate fraud. Its done some good but not enough.
But Medicare Fraud and Abuse is about errors in the billing process. The $60 billion does not refer to expenditures. It refers to billing errors. In 2010 "improper payments" were about $48 billion of which an unknown amount were later found to be correct and proper.
Columbia Healthcare paid about a billion dollars in fines and penalties a few years back for deliberate fraud.
ut medicare was set up for fast and easy payments to providers not for verification. As time has gone on the system is being changed to put more and more emphasis on proper payments. So its not like little is being done. Just that much more needs to be done.
The fundamental point tho' is that patients are almost never involved in fraud.
I agree these teachers exist. I have had them and I have worked with them. I am the first person to support drastic changes to tenure policies so it is easier to replace these teachers. But you are wrong that they are the norm. They are still very much the exception, especially in Lewiston. And Carl- it is so much more complicated than simply holding students back. I would suggest you do more reading on the challenges of ESL students and a large immigrant population because it isn't a simple situation by any means.
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