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Feds bust up $26 million Medicare fraud rings
Federal investigations have uncovered Medicare fraud schemes totalling $26 million. In one case, owners and employees of four medical suppliers based in California and Nevada allegedly billed... Read more...
Organized crime getting deeper into medical identity theft
Medicare and Medicaid fraud is nothing new--but the extent to which these programs are being bilked by hard-core criminal organizations is. As we've reported here previously, evidence continues to... Read more...
Medicare fraud attracts organized crime
If Tony Soprano were a real-life gangster, these days he might be scamming Medicare rather than running protection schemes or loan-sharking. Increasingly, reports suggest, Mafia figures and other... Read more...
