The Feds just made the largest ever healthcare-fraud bust
This week the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the Department of Justice (DOJ), and local law enforcement in 17 different US cities arrested 243 individuals for an alleged $712 million in fraudulent Medicare charges.
The nationally coordinated bust is the largest ever for the Medicare Fraud Strike Force, “both in terms of the number of defendants charged and loss amount,” according to the FBI.
Rick Scott ‘oversaw the largest Medicare fraud in the nation’s history,’ Florida Democratic Party says
Scott’s prior tenure as CEO of Columbia/HCA about a decade ago, when the hospital company was fined $1.7 billion for Medicare fraud.
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