100 charged in health care fraud bust

[shawn703]

Source: CNN

More than 100 people have been charged and an estimated $450 million in false billings uncovered by federal agents in a nationwide operation that authorities say is the largest bust in recent history.

Law enforcement sources say the charges were lodged in seven metropolitan areas, capping an investigation of several months into efforts to defraud Medicare, Medicaid and other federal health programs.

It is the largest of four such sweeps announced during the Obama administration.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2012/05/02/justice/health-care-fraud/index.html

[Dont call me Shirley]

1. Was Rick Scott busted?

[canuckledragger]

5. beat me to it!

Scott Walker was the first name that came to mind when I seen the title, lol

[freshwest]

16. +1

[valerief]

21. Not again! nt

[tabatha]

2. Oh, good.

Tom Coburn on Dylan Ratigan's show the other day was claiming that "current leadership" was doing nothing about stopping medical fraud and abuse.

East your words, Coburn.

[justgamma]

6. Oh, please.

If the righties are saying that, you know they mean some poor person may be getting benefits they aren't qualified for, not the corps. who are screwing the system.

[tabatha]

7. Tom Coburn wrote a book with his crap about medical fraud in it.

I am glad to see his book debunked by the facts.

So, your "oh please" is misplaced.

[justgamma]

11. Sorry for being so cynical,

it's just really rare for a Pub to go after anything, but poor people and Obama.

[tabatha]

14. It was going after fraud to get at Obama.

Your cynicism was correct.

[zbdent]

3. oh crap ... I may have to rescind my resumé ...

[cbayer]

4. It will be interesting to see what types of providers were charged here

and what kind of fraud they were committing.

[Scuba]

17. Yep. This wasn't some 64 year old getting bennies he didn't deserve.

[MoreGOPoop]

8. Yes!

Hoping to see my Corporate, heartless REPUBLICAN 'doctor' on one of these lists. Seems he forgot about that 'First, do no harm' thingy.

[patrice]

9. Sounds like the Risk Management profession itself may be getting riskier. GOOD!

Kathleen Sebelius & team

[Auggie]

10. K&R -- and throw the book at these fuckers

[truthisfreedom]

12. No doubt they were mostly if not all repukes.

[amuse bouche]

13. Apparently

these fraudsters didn't get Governor Scott's last chapter on How To Get Away With Medicare Fraud

[KansDem]

15. KnR

I'd be interested to know how many of these "more than 100 people" are opposed to single payer!

[onethatcares]

18. 100 people charged, 450 million stolen

and they blame those that need lower priced medications for the build up in costs.

why am I not surprised?

[DocMac]

19. We should drop the war on drugs

and start a war on fraud and corruption. This would save trillions and it is the right thing to do.

[goclark]

20. Good idea

I bet most of those "corrupt" ones will be Rethugs.

[DocMac]

22. Most likely.

I'm waiting for the dust to clear and find out who these 100 asses are.

Can you imagine the fraud and corruption that goes on in every sector of society.

You wanna see what is more disturbing? Wait and see what their sentence is. Maybe 2 years. Lots of people doing more time...like 5 or more years because they were addicted to drugs and got caught.

They just don't go after fraud like they do drugs. It's distorted and twisted law.

[Hotler]

23. Nice job, but a drop in the bucket compared to...

the fraud and crimes by the crooks on Wall St. I saw the news confrence and Holder was all proud of the fact that for every dollar spent to investigate this they recouped $7.00. Too fucking bad he doesn't want to go after real crooks. Oh! I forgot. The president said the gang on Wall St. did no wrong. Never mind.