Turko Uncovers Medi-Cal Mismanagement
KUSI's Michael Turko has uncovered evidence of serious mismanagement in state Medi-Cal payments to local doctors. State officials call it a bureaucratic foul-up, but medical insiders tell Turko it's tax money going down the drain.
Med-Cal is supposed to be a safety net for low income patients who can't get medical care on their own. State wide they shell out five hundred million bucks a week to health care providers. But the system is so complex that almost no one really understands all of it. I've shown you some strange consequences of that over the years, now here's more evidence that no one's minding the store. My investigation shows doctors being routinely overpaid for work they never did. Some of them just pocket the money, and as usual, we get the bill. |
