Inside L.A.'s $2 Billion Health Care Fraud Takedown: Sober Homes, Artery Procedures and Hospice Schemes
Federal prosecutors have charged 15 people in a sweep of Los Angeles health care fraud cases. The allegations include an addiction treatment operation that recruited homeless patients, artery procedures performed on people without arterial disease, and hospices that enrolled patients who were not dying.
Four Braces per Patient: Software CEO Gets 19 Years in $1 Billion Medicare Telemedicine Fraud
A jury found his web platform churned out doctors' orders for braces that Medicare patients did not need, signed by physicians who often never spoke to them.