Health Care Delivery System in the U.S.

Medicare is a government health insurance program administered by the federal government which primarily serves elderly recipients of Social Security. The government has chosen to outsource the processing of claims generated through Medicare to outside agencies; this was presumably done to increase service levels and decrease costs to the government. However, it has been found that many of the claims processed through these contractors have been processed incorrectly. This results in additional cost to the government not only in auditing the problems, but in incorrect claims which are either overpaid or not paid appropriately in the first place. In some cases, the actions by the contractors were considered fraudulent (Pretzer, 1999, p.á39).

The effect of the inefficiencies and possibly fraudulent actions taken by government contractors is to increase the cost of delivering Medicare services. If the government expands its r

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