The Golden Horseshoe is a weekly designation from Just The News intended to highlight egregious examples of wasteful taxpayer spending by the government. The award is named for the horseshoe-shaped toilet seats for military airplanes that cost the Pentagon a whopping $640 each back in the 1980s.
The Department of Veterans’ Affairs (VA) and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) paid for the same services for veterans leading to more than 425,000 duplicate payments, which cost taxpayers $307 million, according to a federal watchdog report in December.
The VA inspector general found that the Veterans Health Administration, which oversees veterans’ healthcare for the department, made the duplicate payments in conjunction with CMS, with the two agencies mutually unaware of payments made by the other due to their lack of shared healthcare claims data.
The VHA and Medicare made payments on 140,869 duplicate claims from Jan. 1, 2017 through Sept. […]
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