Medicare paid $3.1M for Viagra, other erectile-dysfunction drugs

The Hill reports:

Despite a ban on funding for sexual or erectile-dysfunction treatments, Medicare improperly paid $3.1 million for the treatments over a two-year period, according to a new internal report.

Medicare’s prescription drug processing system is designed to reject erectile dysfunction drugs, but the $3.1 million was approved because the program used an incomplete list of such drugs, the Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General wrote.

Great moments in socialized medicine.