Taxpayers face big Medicare tab for unusual doctor billings

Wall Street Journal

Ronald S. Weaver isn't a cardiologist. Yet 98% of the $2.3 million that the Los Angeles doctor's practice received from Medicare in 2012 was for a cardiac procedure, according to recently released government data.

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