Feds target Detroit area as Medicare fraud rises

[BlueJessamine]

Source: The Miami Herald

DETROIT -- In six months, a clinic collected more than $500,000 from the government's Medicare program for taking care of just 14 people.

Here's why: The clinic was recruiting and paying patients, mostly people with HIV, and then getting reimbursement for phony or unnecessary treatments, according to federal investigators.

"There are a lot of places that are paying patients to get their business," said Assistant U.S. Attorney F. William Soisson.

The government is fighting back.

The Detroit region is one of four areas in the country where a "strike force" - beefed-up teams of agents and prosecutors - will concentrate on Medicare fraud, a crime that costs billions.


Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1064781.html

[Downwinder]

1. Interesting, they target one of the hardest hit economic areas. n/t

[McCamy Taylor]

2. Do not believe everything you read. Just one congestive heart failure patient can use up this much $

The feds may be lying through their teeth.

[TaxCollector]

3. Not Surprising

Some of the corrupt local politicians are probably involved in this scheme. Friends or supporters of Kwame or the council members, no doubt.

[Hannah Bell]

4. interesting you reach this conclusion on the basis of zero evidence.

[Demeter]

5. Why Is This Article Coming From MIAMI?