ANOTHER MEGA MEDICARE BILLING FRAUD BUSTED - but the Medicare & Medicaid cuts hurt the poor in America!

by Guest Sat Jul 23, 2016 7:15 pm

Yet, again ...this is the reason that our Medicare is in such horrid states of accountability and the balance sheets are all out of whack {well, fraud and those millions stolen from the account to never be returned} but that's ancient history.
Sickens me to no end that these scrupulous bastards pull such mega fraud schemes and rip off millions & billions and yet each year the national budget can't be balanced or my state budget can't be balanced this is the very fund that suffers the consistent funding cuts Evil or Very Mad

Feds charge 3 people in record $1 billion Medicare fraud scheme

Reuters - Sarah N. Lynch - 1 day ago

The U.S. Department of Justice unveiled its largest-ever criminal healthcare fraud case against individuals on Friday, charging the owner of Miami-based assisted living facilities and two others in a massive $1 billion Medicare fraud scheme.
Prosecutors alleged that Philip Esformes, 47, "masterminded and executed a sophisticated health care fraud and money laundering" conspiracy that spanned more than a decade, according to court records.
Esformes and his co-conspirators Odette Barcha, 49, and Arnaldo Carmouze, 56, are accused of steering patients who did not qualify for assisted living or skilled nursing into his network of facilities where they received medically unnecessary services that were billed to government health care programs.
The government also alleges that they solicited and extracted kickbacks from pharmacies, home health agencies and other providers.
The kickbacks were disguised as "payments to escorts, charitable donations, and a basketball coach," among other things, according to a copy of the government's request to detain Esformes.
This is not the first time Esformes has been in trouble with the law. In 2006, he paid $15.4 million to resolve civil federal health care fraud claims for what the government called "essentially identical conduct."
To evade detection, the Justice Department said he and his co-conspirators adapted their strategy by employing "sophisticated money laundering techniques."
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/money/feds-charge-3-people-in-record-dollar1-billion-medicare-fraud-scheme/ar-BBuFcmZ?ocid=ansmsnnews11