False Medicare Claims Scams 0
Posted on
July 16, 2010 by
Nick
94 scammers were charged for filing false Medicare claims, receiving kickbacks, and fraud in Miami, New York City, Detroit, Baton Rouge, and Houston. It is the largest Medicare fraud bust in history — part of a massive overhaul in the way federal officials are preventing and prosecuting the crimes.
The 94 people arrested included doctors and nurses were charged $251 million on Friday July 16, 2010. That’s a very small fraction of the almost $90 billion in fraudulent medicare claims filed annually. Miami, Florida is known for close to $3 billion in Medicare fraud claims a year. It’s also known as the ground zero for Medicare scams.