A fraudulent cancer screening system resulted in Medicare being being billed for over $2.1 billion in unnecessary costs, and, with 35 arrested, has become the 'largest health care scam ever' according to the government.
. The tests also weren't eligible for Medicare reimbursement. Among the arrested were nine doctors.
U.S. Attorney Bobby L. Christine of the Southern District of Georgia said,"our office charged more defendants, responsible for more health care fraud losses, than ever before in this office's history. While these charges might be some of the first, they won't be the last." The effort, entitled Operation Double Helix, was a coordinated federal action, led by the Health Care Fraud Unit of the Criminal Division's Fraud Section, in conjunction with its Medicare Fraud Strike Force, as well as the U.S. Attorney's Offices for the Southern District of Florida, Middle District of Florida, Southern District of Georgia, Eastern District of Louisiana, and Middle District of Louisiana, according to a statement from the JDDHHS.
A photo taken on January 24, 2018 shows lab tecnicians demonstrating DNA testing at the Puntland Forensic Center in Garowe, Puntland State, Somalia. In the US, the world's largest healthcare scam ever has been uncovered, with 35 individuals facing charges for defrauding Medicare of $1.2 billion dollars in a scheme involving bribery and unnecessary DNA screening for cancer.
Such fraudulent actions are nothing new for the JDDHS. The country's Medicare fraud task force has filed 1,600 and counting cases involving 3,500 and counting defendants who bilked Medicare of more than $13 billion in false charges, according to a 2018 report by the Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Inspector General.
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