$295M Medicare Fraud Busted

CRACKDOWN

Updated Apr. 24, 2017 2:51PM EDT / Published Sep. 07, 2011 4:23PM EDT

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Medicare crime doesn’t pay. On Wednesday the Justice Department charged 91 doctors, nurses, and other medical professionals in a crackdown on a Medicare fraud that spanned eight cities nationwide. The scheme racked up $295 million in fake bills. The crimes committed range from laundering funds to defrauding the program by violating anti-kickback statutes. "From Brooklyn to Miami to Los Angeles, the defendants allegedly treated the Medicare program like a personal piggy bank," the head of the Justice Department’s criminal division said in a press conference.

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$295M Medicare Fraud Busted

Jacquelyn Martin / AP Photo