The New York Times on Officials: Ex-chief of Medicare broke law: Investigators want former head of the agency to return pay because of threats.
The Bush administration illegally withheld data from Congress on the cost of the new Medicare law, and as a penalty, the former head of the Medicare agency, Thomas Scully, should repay seven months of his salary to the government, federal investigators said Tuesday.
The investigators, from the Government Accountability Office, said Scully had threatened to fire the chief Medicare actuary, in violation of federal appropriations law.
I really don’t want to believe this about Tom, especially since I knew and worked for him at the Federation of American Hospitals from 1996 – 1998. He was always decent to me and my coworkers at the Federation. I truly enjoyed working for the man. This really disturbs me. I had been under the (apparently mistaken) impression that the mistreatment of the actuary had occurred above Tom’s head.
Somebody, please say it ain’t so.