US CHARGES 412 FOR USD1.3 BILLION MEDICAID FRAUD
July 1st, 2017
In a major healthcare fraud clampdown, the USA’s Department of Justice (DoJ) has arrested and charged 412 people, including 115 doctors, nurses and other licensed medical professionals, for defrauding America’s public funds of some USD1.3 billion. A July 13 DoJ statement said the US Medicare Fraud Strike Force (MSSF) swoop had “aggressively” targeted schemes falsely billing the Medicare, Medicaid, and TRICARE (armed forces) funds “for medically unnecessary prescription drugs and compounded medications that often were never even purchased and/or ...
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