Newark FBI office rolls out campaign designed to stop health care fraud

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Newark FBI office rolls out campaign designed to stop health care fraud


Published: Monday, July 25, 2011, 10:18 PM Updated: Monday, July 25, 2011, 10:18 PM
By Jason Grant/The Star-Ledger The Star-Ledger

Courtesy of the FBI The ads, aimed at increasing public awareness and reporting of health care fraud, will be posted on billboards and mall kiosks in New Jersey.

NEWARK — Pointing to estimates that say fraudulent billings to U.S. health care programs cost a "staggering" $60 billion to $200 billion in losses each year, the FBI's Newark division today launched a one-of-a-kind digital advertising campaign on New Jersey billboards and kiosks aimed at getting the public to blow the whistle on suspected health care fraud.
"Our purpose with this campaign is to generate an abundance of new leads," said Michael B. Ward, head of the division.
Division spokesman Bryan Travers said the campaign represents the first time the FBI has used ads to promote a general investigative program. He added that the FBI had designated it a "pilot program."
It will used on a national level if it works well here, he said.
"We think perhaps one of the reasons the public is not reporting health care fraud is they either don't recognize it or they recognize it but don't know what to do about it," Travers said.
The campaign's ads, which include an FBI phone number, will be placed on both digital kiosks at malls and electronic billboards along the New Jersey Turnpike and interstate highways.
Travers said he and other agents today explained some of the various types of health care fraud. It can range from — among other things — medical professionals billing for services never given, to pharmacists overbilling insurers or government programs, to false reporting of diagnoses in order to collect more money, to getting medicines on the black market, Travers said.
The program is being paid for with FBI health care fraud-designated funds, Travers said, although the FBI would not disclose the exact cost


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Editor's note: I'm sure our Chicago FBI knows about all the mischief on the 18th Floor of the Daley Center.  Your ProbateShark has been "blowing the whistle" on this shark blog about the Probate Court of Cook County and health care fraud and yet nothing is being done.  This fraud could not go on without the complete cooperation of the probate court judges... Lucius Verenus, Schoolmaster, ProbateSharks.com