AP NewsBreak: Competition cuts down Medicare fraud

WASHINGTON — A year­long exper­i­ment with com­pet­i­tive bid­ding for power wheel­chairs, dia­betic sup­plies and other per­sonal med­ical equip­ment pro­duced $200 mil­lion in sav­ings for Medicare, and gov­ern­ment offi­cials said Wednes­day they are expand­ing the pilot pro­gram in search of even greater dividends.