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NewsMedicare poorly polices payments to suspicious providers
Despite billings that raise red flags, Medicare often continues to fork over thousands or even millions of dollars to unscrupulous providers, sometimes for years, the Wall Street Journal reports. In Read more...
Mammoth Medicare fraud bust targets organized crime group
In what has been deemed the "largest Medicare fraud scheme ever perpetrated by a single criminal enterprise," 73 people--including members of an Armenian-American organized crime syndicate--were Read more...
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...
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