Justice Department Announces Biggest Medicare Fraud Crackdown
About 300 people arrested over alleged scams of military health program, home health care
Editor's note: Loretta, imagine 100 times that many crooks arrested if you "crackdown" on the Probate Court of Cook County. Lucius Verenus, Schoolmaster, ProbateSharks.com
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Attorney General Loretta Lynch said the government’s crackdown on Medicare fraud involved cases around the country totaling about $900 million in losses. Photo: jim lo scalzo/European Pressphoto Agency
Attorney General Loretta Lynch announced the crackdown Wednesday, citing cases around the country where prosecutors say they found a wide variety of health-care fraud that totaled about $900 million in losses.
In California, officials have charged a man with receiving illegal payments for marketing compound medications, the costs of which were paid by Tricare, a program for members of the military, veterans and their families.
Previously, authorities have said compound-prescription sales involving Tricare were generating hundreds of millions of dollars in fraudulent transactions. The medications are specially mixed by pharmacists, often to treat pain, and often sell for thousands of dollars per prescription.
Other suspects charged in the crackdown include the managers of physical-therapy clinics in New York City that allegedly laundered money, paid kickbacks and billed Medicare and Medicaid for unnecessary treatments for patients.
