$350M Medicare Drug Bill Came From Just 700 Doctors: OIG

By Jeff Overley (June 20, 2013, 6:29 PM EDT) -- Medicare spent $350 million in one year on prescription drugs authorized by roughly 700 physicians who helped patients acquire inordinate amounts of painkillers and used an unusually large number of pharmacies, activities that might suggest fraud, according to an inspector general's report released Thursday....

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