Largest Ever Medicare Fraud Scheme By Single Criminal Enterprise Busted
By admin on Oct 18, 2010 in Health and Fitness
A US-wide Medicare fraud scheme aimed to con the system out of $160 million which resulted in a huge security operation – dubbed Diagnosis Dollars – has resulted in over 52 arrests across the country. In the Los Angeles area alone the number of arrests so far have exceeded a couple of dozen. According to security forces, the crime is “the largest Medicare fraud scheme ever perpetrated by a single criminal enterprise”. The organized crime group Mirzoyan-Terdjanian sequestered doctors’ identities and enrolled non-existent clinicians as Medicare providers. Even false offices were set up…
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