When doctors cheat to line pockets, insurers pay, and sometimes taxpayers too, prosecutors say
When hospitals and doctors cheat to line their pockets, health care costs shoot up for everyone who has insurance, federal prosecutors say. In many cases, taxpayers are left to foot the bill.
A case in point: an employee had back surgery at Forest Park Medical Center and a two-day stay to recover, and already the hospital bill was up to $400,000, the witness told jurors.
What the patient and his employer, the city of Allen, did not know was that Forest Park was paying kickbacks and bribes to doctors for bringing their surgeries to the higher-cost, out-of-network Dallas hospital, federal prosecutors said.
Some of the victims of Forest Park's scheming were employees and taxpayers of North Texas cities like Dallas and Allen, who fund city programs through their property taxes, Assistant U.S. Attorney Katherine Pfeifle told jurors.
Read more: https://www.dallasnews.com/news/crime/2019/03/20/doctors-cheat-line-pockets-insurers-pay-sometimes-taxpayers-prosecutors-say
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You have the Drug Industry, Pharmacists, go betweens and Providers in the Hearing Aid industry, Hospitals over charging for Drugs and services. Companies that provide Medicaid.
The rackets are so huge it would take dynamite to get them out.
On a funny note Mexicans are cutting the barbed wire on the fence to put it around their homes.
This may not be true but is funny.