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Dozens Arrested in Health Care Scam Sweep


US Politics & Gov't  (tags: government, federal, Scams, Fraud, Health Care, crime, corruption, lies, ethics )

Dee
- 118 days ago - nytimes.com
Federal authorities arrested more than 30 people, including doctors, and were seeking others in a major health care fraud investigation in New York, Louisiana, Boston and Houston.
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Dee C. (506)
Saturday August 1, 2009, 6:07 am
"More than 200 agents worked on the $16 million case, which included 12 search warrants at health care businesses and homes across the Houston area, where the bulk of the arrests were made. Federal authorities say those businesses were giving patients “arthritis kits,” which were nothing more than expensive orthotics that included knee and shoulder braces and heating pads."

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Chaz Gaily Berlusconi (251)
Saturday August 1, 2009, 5:08 pm
So goooood. Time that these fraudsters were caught, they only can make our medial bills go higher?
 

Michelle M. (83)
Sunday August 2, 2009, 7:05 am
Thanks Dee. Anything new always has it's share of scams and frauds. Hope people will be on the lookout!
 

Dee C. (506)
Sunday August 2, 2009, 9:03 am
Such a shame that there are those that prey on people who are ill..and those scuzz buckets that take advantage to their own selfish profits..
Glad they were snagged..
 

sue w. (153)
Sunday August 2, 2009, 11:21 pm
Now they need to go after Big Pharma and Psychiatry for all their bogus claims.
 
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