According to a GAO report in 2005 approximately seventy five percent of those physicians providing concierge medicine services do not opt out of Medicare, but provide some services either as a participating or non-participating physician. Those physicians must be very careful to assure that they do not charge concierge customers for any service that might be otherwise covered by Medicare which can create a potential claim for over-billing for medicare services in violation of the False Claims Act.
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