Crackdown nets about 100 Medicare fraud suspects in Miami, other cities

Miami Herald ^ | 07/16/2010 | Jay Weaver

[devane617]

Federal agents early Friday arrested about 100 people accused of plotting to fleece $256 million from Medicare by filing phony claims with the taxpayer-funded healthcare program. The arrests were part of an orchestrated crackdown in five major U.S. cities that coincided with the nation's first healthcare fraud summit in Miami.

[devane617]

Well, at least the Russians are getting in on the American freebies.

[exbrit]

Just another reason against Obama care.

[OCC]

$256 million from just 100 people? You know there are tens of thousands of fraudsters out there taking advantage of the system... scary.

[B4Ranch]

My reading on this is that if you only scam them for a tiny amount, say $100K a year, they won’t even look your way. It took $2.5M a year to get on this list.