An agent with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' inspector general's office takes part in arrests Tuesday in Queens, N.Y., related to a Medicare scheme.
Telemarketers would reach out to seniors offering “free” orthopedic braces, also touted through television and radio ads. Beneficiaries who expressed interest would be patched through to call centers involved in the scheme. Officials described an “international telemarketing network” with call centers in the Philippines and throughout Latin America.
The doctors would write prescriptions for orthopedic braces, regardless of whether the patients needed them, officials said. In some cases, several braces were prescribed for the same patient. Healthcare fraud is a pervasive problem that costs taxpayers tens of billions of dollars a year. The true extent of it is unknown, and some cases involve gray areas of complex payment policies.
They got the same thing here... Except you get Nike's haha
PrincessBravato They are in Kentucky too
See? That's why we need everything privatized. Yours truly, right wing pundit.
This happened to me. 3 different braces. I shipped them back.
That's good. But does Health and Human Services really need a SWAT team?