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Medicare Is Wasting Millions Of Dollars Paying Too Much For Penis Pumps


               
2014 Jan 15, 2:15am   1,687 views  17 comments

by zzyzzx   follow (9)  

http://consumerist.com/2014/01/14/health-dept-report-medicare-is-wasting-millions-of-dollars-paying-too-much-for-penis-pumps/

A new report by the inspector general for the Department of Health and Human Services [PDF] says that penis pumps cost the Medicare program $172 million between 2006 and 2011 on 474,000 claims.

So what's the big deal? After all, the Mayo Clinic says the pumps — or vacuum erection systems — are one of the few treatment options for erectile dysfunction, notes Reuters.

HHS is peeved at the cost because well, Medicare might've done better shopping for the pumps on the Internet and paying half as much money as a normal consumer would, the report says.

Government waste is a hot button issue in the U.S. capital right now while lawmakers argue over the best way to balance the budget.

“Medicare payment amounts for VES remain grossly excessive compared with the amounts that non-Medicare payers pay,” said the December 2013 report. “Medicare currently pays suppliers more than twice as much for VES as the Department of Veterans Affairs and consumers over the Internet pay for these types of devices.”

If Medicare instead had its payments cover what non-Medicare members pay, the government could've saved about $14.4 million in each of those six years, the report says.

Sounds like it's time to teach someone at Medicare how to Internet.

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1   Dan8267   @   2014 Jan 15, 3:04am  

Dude, seriously, what search terms you have in you Google News Alerts?

2   HydroCabron   @   2014 Jan 15, 4:16am  

I think he also filters for "convenience store" or "supermarket", as in "Transexual Mass Horse Molester with Nun in Ass Exposes Himself at Quicky Mart."

3   Ceffer   @   2014 Jan 15, 5:07am  

They got suspicious when 80 percent of the penis pumps were supposedly installed on men who were already dead, but their families were still cashing their social security checks. The families were selling the still boxed penis pumps on ebay.

Why do you hate government largesse? If it works for the Pentagon, it should work for medical economics.

4   elliemae   @   2014 Jan 15, 11:07am  

HydroCabron is Kochel 271 says

"Transexual Mass Horse Molester with Nun in Ass Exposes Himself at Quicky Mart."

That story should have won a Pulitzer...if only the nun had been a monk - and pregnant with frozen Michael Jackson sperm - it woulda won. Don't mock it

5   Ceffer   @   2014 Jan 15, 3:17pm  

elliemae says

HydroCabron is Kochel 271 says

"Transexual Mass Horse Molester with Nun in Ass Exposes Himself at Quicky Mart."

That story should have won a Pulitzer...if only the nun had been a monk - and pregnant with frozen Michael Jackson sperm - it woulda won. Don't mock it

What a relief it was a real nun. "Blue Nun" in ass would have been another one of those bottle in rectum emergency room things.

6   elliemae   @   2014 Jan 16, 1:03am  

Ceffer says

What a relief it was a real nun. "Blue Nun" in ass would have been another one of those bottle in rectum emergency room things.

A rectal cavity can only handle so much - it had to have been a little-person nun up that thar ass.

7   Ceffer   @   2014 Jan 16, 1:59am  

elliemae says

Ceffer says

What a relief it was a real nun. "Blue Nun" in ass would have been another one of those bottle in rectum emergency room things.

A rectal cavity can only handle so much - it had to have been a little-person nun up that thar ass.

Nuns do have a way of crawling up your ass.

8   MisdemeanorRebel   @   2014 Jan 16, 2:51am  

There's too much pressure on this situation.

9   elliemae   @   2014 Jan 17, 2:12am  

thunderlips11 says

There's too much pressure on this situation.

Yes - someone blew this one out of proportion.

10   justme   @   2014 Jan 17, 2:15am  

Where's Mikey? I feel a pun-fest coming on.

11   justme   @   2014 Jan 17, 2:16am  

Medicare waste really sucks!

12   justme   @   2014 Jan 17, 2:23am  

While my mind was on the topic, I just had an epiphany: Is ZZYZZX a coded shorthand for SissySex? Inquiring minds want to know.

13   justme   @   2014 Jan 17, 2:25am  

zzyzzx says

Sounds like it’s time to teach someone at Medicare how to Internet.

Yeah, and then the right wingers will go bananas about how some poor federal employee was caught using Teh Internets for their personal gratification. I can see that one coming from 12 inches away.

14   Ceffer   @   2014 Jan 17, 2:28am  

Medicare needs to soften its stance on pimping penis pumps.

It's too hardon the economy.

15   zzyzzx   @   2014 Jan 17, 2:32am  

Ceffer says

Medicare needs to soften its stance on pimping penis pumps.

16   Ceffer   @   2014 Jan 17, 2:39am  

justme says

I can see that one coming from 12 inches away.

I wouldn't do that, you'll get it in your eye. Then you would have to sue them that they didn't warn you that the penis pump could be used as a weapon.

But be sure to get a lawyer who will inflate the damages.

17   zzyzzx   @   2014 Jan 17, 2:47am  

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