- > An Arizona man was sentenced Friday to 15 years in prison and ordered to pay more than $452 million in restitution for conspiring to defraud Medicare and other federal health care benefit programs of more than $1 billion by operating a platform that generated false doctors’ orders used to support fraudulent claims for various medical items.
I wish all headlines read like this instead of "here's why you should be scared"
by burkesquires
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- I think fraudsters should have to work off the money they stole at prison wages…punishments are supposed to be deterent and prevent people from commingting crime…don’t seal a billion dollars becasue IF you get caught you will have to pay back half is not a deterent…BUT if they have to pay off a billion dollars at 13-52 cents/hour…that is a deterent!
- Seeing a lot of these pop up more recently, but this has been happening for a decade now apparently. Isn't this the fault of Medicare itself, of not having routine checks and better processes for preventing these fraudulent claims at the source?
If only the big scams are being caught (and we don't know what % are being caught), there's likely a lot more going undetected.
- Is Trump going to pardon this guy like he did Salomon Melgen, who was convicted in 2017 of defrauding Medicare out of $73 million?
- Why does he only have to repay 45%?
by burnt-resistor
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- So token enforcement despite widespread corruption, collusion, racketeering, and rapacious bankrupting of ill, dying, and dead patients and their families in-lieu of a functional healthcare system that isn't obsessed with maximizing shareholder value over lives. It's literally the most expensive deathcare the market will bear.
by throw-12-16
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- He should run for the Senate.
- see also: Odd Lots interviewed Jetson Leder-Luis about medicare and medicaid fraud (nov 2024): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-fraudsters-are-bil...
by dickersnoodle
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- Good. Now do (Florida Senator) Rick Scott.
by AndrewKemendo
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- I mean that’s pretty unabashed good news. I’m probably the most cynical person that comments regularly and I’ll take it!
It’s something at least.
- 79 years of age!? umm... i dont understand - is this supposed to be a warning to others, or an invitation?
where was the FBI for the last 40 years? or did he really just go postal post-covid?
- Meanwhile, we have the former governor of Florida and now Seantor from Florida Rick Scott, who was CEO of the company successfully prosecuted for the largest Medicare fraud in history ($1.7 billion) [1].
Here's what to watch: how long it takes for a donation to show up to the Trump library and how soon after that the sentence is commutted. This has erased roughly $1 billion in penalties so far since January 20. Hell, it might only take $1 million.
[1]: https://www.justice.gov/archive/opa/pr/2003/June/03_civ_386....
by hermannj314
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- > The fraudulent doctors’ orders generated by DMERx falsely represented that a doctor had examined and treated the Medicare beneficiaries when, in fact, purported telemedicine companies paid doctors to sign the orders without regard to medical necessity
They'll get doctors as well? Hopefully they are part of the co-conspirators group they mentioned they convicted at the start. Criminals are going to be criminal, but it's especially disheartening when doctors engage in this. All those years going to school should be canceled and thrown into the trash immediately if they get convicted of these kinds of crimes. The path of ever being a doctor should be closed for them.
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