This editor has learned that the Medicare Trust Fund is involved in an "Oxygen Machine" billing system that allows medical doctors to prescribe "air compressors" with a basic humidifier to be placed in elderly Medicare patients homes and the Medicare Trust Fund pays oxygen supply vendors over $180.00 a MONTH. These same vendors also try to bill an additional $45 a month and either the patient or their supplemental insurance carrier gets that bill. These machines are nothing more that a "glorified" aquarium pump(see picture).The list price is around $700 for unit pictured.
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