“If you think health care is expensive now, wait and see how expensive it will be when it’s free.” - P.J. O’Rourke
Thirty suspects were charged yesterday in three cities for their alleged roles in schemes to submit more than $61 million in false Medicare claims. The suspects were arrested as part of continuing operations by the Medicare Fraud Strike Force, comprised of agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Department of Health & Human Services.
The Departments of Justice and Health & Human Services expanded the Strike Force operations to include Brooklyn, NY, Tampa, FL, and Baton Rouge, LA in the fifth, sixth and seventh phases of a targeted criminal, civil and administrative effort against individuals and health care providers who fraudulently bill the Medicare program.
The Congressional Budget Office estimates up to $63 billion is distributed each year on fraudulent claims, with some experts estimating even higher losses due to waste and abuse of the government’s current health care programs, Medicare and Medicaid.
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