The scope of Medicare fraud truly knows no bounds:

Federal agents arrested 26 suspects in three states Tuesday, including a doctor and nurses, in a major crackdown on Medicare fraud totaling $61 million in separate scams. [..] Dr. Fred Dweck, along with 14 people with whom he worked, was accused in an indictment of running a scam to tap a Medicare program that pays very high rates to care for the sickest patients.

Dweck referred about 1,279 Medicare beneficiaries for expensive and unnecessary home health and therapy services, bribing the owners of two Miami clinics to join the scam. He also faked medical certifications, according to the indictment.

Even more abhorrent than the monetary amount involved is the danger many of these patients — the ill, vulnerable elderly — were truly experiencing as part of this interstate crime. | LINK

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