Posted on 06/23/2016 8:02:05 PM PDT by artichokegrower
Several doctors, a psychiatrist and a pharmacist were among 22 people in Southern California charged as part of a nationwide investigation into federal healthcare fraud schemes that frequently targeted military families and cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars, the U.S. Justice Department announced Wednesday.
The investigation resulted in the largest such enforcement action in U.S. history, netting more than 300 people nationwide and involving more than $900 million in fraudulent billings, officials said.
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There’s one here who’s been double dipping and filing fraudulent claims but nothing has ever been done to stop her.
Laundering money via a carwash. I love it.
Love, Heisenberg
We just got the itemized statement from a quack chiro that BC/BS paid.
Some of the charges are insane.
Way over $600 for a crappy $30 TENS unit he sent me home with.
Charges for “surgery”.
[wtf?]
A host of other bogus things that were either not done or insanely inflated.
Should I call BC/BS and report it?
Will they even do anything about it?
Report it.
Yes, report it.
Pardon me but... huh?
There is something very wrong with this story.
Tricare for the past four years has had an absolute vendetta against compounding pharmacies. Tricare refuses to pay for my compounded medicine preferring to pay four times as much for three separate medicines.
I will.
Mistakes happen. So does fraud.
The ‘medical biller’ would likely be the jittery, weird little old blonde lady who talked too much and listened too little.
I wondered how he could afford such a lavish place, given his relatively low patient numbers.
Maybe this is how.
Considering how he botched my one session very badly, I doubt he has a lot of repeat business.
The whole place felt “off” to me.
I only paid a $20 co-pay but he skinned and gutted my insurance company.
$600 for a TENS unit?
Was it made of gold pressed latinum?
It was a piece of crap I could get for $29, including shipping, from anywhere on the ‘net.
Not anywhere as nice as the one I already own, that I got on sale for $99.
They said I ‘needed EMS, not TENS” but my unit does both.
I told them that but they *insisted* I take theirs home.
Now I know why.
SoCal ping
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