Posted on 09/24/2009 3:14:13 AM PDT by underthestreetlite
Bronx hospital employees, lawyer charged in insurance fraud scam
Employees of the city's Health and Hospitals Corporation (HHC) received bribes to deliver confidential patient information to personal injury lawyers, city and state officials allege.
Six HHC employees and a former HHC employee who worked at Lincoln Hospital, Bronx, and a private attorney, were arrested today on bribery charges in connection with the insurance scheme.
According to the office of Attorney General Andrew Cuomo -- who filed the charges -- the information was allegedly used to lure patients into receiving unnecessary treatment and then submitting over a million dollars in phony personal injury claims to insurance carriers, taking advantage of the state's no-fault insurance laws
(Excerpt) Read more at silive.com ...
It’s New York State, possibly the only place in the USA that could rival Chicago for corruption.
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