The US Department of Justice says the patients were lured by an international telemarketing network involving call centres in the Philippines and Latin America. – EPA pic, April 10, 2019.
ONE of the largest healthcare frauds in American history caused more than US$1 billion in losses after hundreds of thousands of patients were lured into the scheme, US investigators said yesterday, announcing charges against 24 people. The alleged scheme involved the provision of wrist, knee and other braces to elderly and/or disabled patients who did not need them, but who were covered by the Medicare public insurance system.
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