It's no secret that Missouri Auditor Nicole Galloway is extremely effective when it comes to protecting Missouri taxpayers. It's also no secret that Galloway's office helped uncover a major rural hospital billing scam in Missouri. In May of this year, Galloway's work uncovering a billing scam at Unionville, Missouri's Putnam County Memorial Hospital earned her national media attention from CBS News . The scam involved the hospital acting as a shell company for, to put it mildly, extremely shady billing practices: (Galloway's) team discovered a management company called Hospital Partners had swooped in weeks before Putnam (County Memorial Hospital) was about to close, promising to turn it around. They made deals with labs around the country to funnel billing for blood tests and drug screens through Putnam, which collects higher reimbursement rates as a rural hospital. Putnam kept about 15 percent; most of the money was wired back to the labs and the man...
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