Medicare, Medicaid Cheats Arrested in Sweeping Healthcare Fraud Sting

A Medicaid doctor destroyed my nose and face with extreme, obsolete and unnecessary surgeries. He told me he was going to remove some nasal polyps. I had gone to see him for ear ringing. Treatment for the iatrogenic conditions caused by this doctor have cost the taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars, not to mention that my life is ruined. The cost of health care has not skyrocketed due to lawsuits. The inflated cost is due to corruption in the medical industry. I am encouraged to see law enforcement going after these criminals.

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The big fraud of this country is the Social Services department. I know several people that are not married and have a baby and their boy friend won't work and is living with the girlfriend and welfare is keeping them up. They get a place to live,lights, water, and phone and 250.00 food stamps free for her, baby and lazy boyfriend. The goverment doesn't give these people any incentive to work because these people know that the goverment is going to keep them up. Obama should start cleaning this department up and leave the Social Security alone. At lease the people on ss worked.

Glad they're caught. Hope it will serve as a warning, and not depreciate the good work done in the USA on health care reform.

I am appalled and ashamed of those who would cheat and fraud the old, the poor, the infirm; in other words their brothers and sisters on this earth. How can people live with themselves? I keep thinking that people can't surprise me anymore,but they do.

JAIL TIME!!! ALSO, THINK ABOUT THE PEOPLE WE GIVE HEALTH CARE TO THAT DON'T HAVE INSURANCE. IMAGINE HOW MUCH MONEY THAT WILL SAVE HOSPITALS AND DOCTORS, AND WE CAN THEN LOWER FEES! NO MORE HEALTH CARE TO PEOPLE WHO DON'T HAVE INSURANCE OR ARE HERE ILLEGALLY!

THERE SHOULD BE NO IF AND'S OR BUT'S THESE PEOPLE GO TO JAIL AS FAST AS WE CAN GET THEM THERE,YOU DID IT ,YOU LOSE. PEOPLE WILL BE WATCHING HOW THIS PLAYS OUT.

MANDATORY JAIL TIME!! Or better yet WORK camps!

An excellent job of all those involved with a multifaceted investigation. I know from personal experience as in the recent (2 yrs) death of my mother, that medical personal slam grieving families with medical bills. Of course, they are to be paid by medicaid but still I carefully reviewed each one and was amazed at how far some will go to collect medicaid money. For example, one ER doctor sent an "additional hour" of emergency billing 1 1/2 years after the event. This followed another physician billing medicaid for an unusual office visit by my mother for follow-up treatment. So, I kindly called the physician's office and asked the receptionist to tell my mother that the next time she comes to their office for a medical appointment, please ask her to phone home. (My mother lived with me.) The unidentified woman seemed unsure of my request & asked if there was a problem? I told her that there was indeed and I said to her, "You see, my mother & I have always been very close, we're nearly inseparable, but apparently nearly two years after her death, she came in to see you for a medical examination to which I just received a copy of the bill. So, the next time you see mom please ask her to come home and see me too."

Yes thats hospice for ya. These elderly people get ripped off big time. Can you imagine the money medicare, and medicaid can save for situations like this. I feel each state should investigate

It's just so frustrating that so many people do this kind of Fraud stuff. (from car insurance fraud, intentional fires, bogus medical claims etc etc etc) Because it is "us", the American Tax Payers who end up paying for their greed. There definatly has to be more "policing" and "regulating" of these type scams. The Welfare system has soo many people who "expect" to be taken care of...just because the are not willing to work. These people will go out of their way to make sure they "cannot work", or are not "employable".
Many spend their life, looking for the "free ride", rather than actually work. That is why there is so many Law Suits...they wanna get something for nothing. I wish they would get off their lazy butts, and try to be a productive citizen, rather than a burden.
I believe it was JFK, (sorry, I am politically ignorant) who once said, "Ask Not What Your Country Can Do For You, But What You Can Do For Your Country." Yeah right! I see so much of the opposite, that it sickens me.
I have a friend, who just 6 days ago, suffered a Heart Attack. He was at the local Albertsons store. He collapsed at the check-out stand, and when he stopped breathing...no one did anything, or tried to give CPR! He is in a coma now, after going over 10 minutes without oxygen, before the paramedics got there.
Would I have jumped in and gave CPR, if I had witnessed this? I sure hope so, but like so many people nowdays, we are conditioned to think that we could get "sued". Sad, and pathetic really, that this friend of mine who is only 47 years old, would probably be fine & home by now...if someone would have just pounded him a few times on the chest. But, instead, he was moved to the Hospice section of the hospital this morning.