Hundreds of medical professionals arrested for scamming millions from Medicare

Representing the largest medical fraud case in history, federal authorities have arrested more than 100 doctors, nurses, physical therapists, and other medical professionals for allegedly swindling hundreds of millions of dollars from the federal Medicare program. The violators, who were busted in nine different U.S. cities, are said to have fraudulently billed Medicare for sometimes millions of dollars for simple procedures, and even for procedures they never even performed.

In Brooklyn, N.Y., for instance, federal agents targeted three physical therapy clinics for scamming at least $50 million from Medicare over the past two years. The clinics were paying phony patients to go along with being falsely diagnosed for conditions they did not have, and come to fake appointments via costly ambulance services. Read more...

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