I think it looks like you have done what is politically convenient.

Does the HHS Inspector General support adding such a line to the claim form?

The device identifiers on the claim form would reduce Medicare costs by identifying poorly performing devices more quickly and protect beneficiaries from unnecessary cost.

Adding device identifiers to claim forms has bipartisan support in Congress. Senator Grassley and I have been pushing this now for years, and I'll be blunt, we're going to keep pushing on this.

Last year, CMS also supported adding the device information to claims.

Then a recent report showed that medical error, including patient misidentification, was the third leading cause of death in the United States.

A 2012 survey found that 1 in 5 physicians encountered mismatched information that led to illness or injury at least once during the preceding year.

I'm very glad to hear this, that we're working on ways to address the shortcomings in the current system.

It seems that figuring out how to use safer devices and sorting out the safer devices from the less safe devices could save Medicare a lot of money and save consumers a lot of money and a lot of pain.

I think that spouting fake science is extremely corrosive to public policy and should be called out in public at every possible opportunity.

This is the classic revolving door. In fact, it is worse than the classic. It is the revolving door at its worst, and the American people cannot have confidence in our Government so long as the revolving door is spinning like this.