The Avanti Law Group: Feds make Medicare fraud a top priority

The Avanti Law Group: Feds make Medicare fraud a top priority TAMPA — Four men set up four bogus medical clinics in Tampa. They pay Medicare clients who allow the clinics to bill Medicare HMO insurance providers in their names for vein procedures they never... More

The Avanti Law Group: Feds make Medicare
fraud a top priority
TAMPA — Four men set up four bogus medical clinics in Tampa.
They pay Medicare clients who allow the clinics to bill Medicare HMO insurance providers in their
names for vein procedures they never undergo. Each clinic submits a separate bill for each patient,
submitting multiple claims for the same procedures on the same individuals at the same time.
The scam went on for more than three years. Collectively, the men were able to steal more than $2.5
million from federal taxpayers.
They are part of a massive industry of cheats who have become a top priority for federal investigators
who say they're concerned not only with the money being taken but also with the threat posed to public
health by some of the schemes. In one of the cases, patients who need expensive intravenous drugs were
given saline solution instead while the bad guys pocketed insurance payments for the drugs.
Healthcare fraud is estimated to cost the country $80 Less