If you watch daytime TV or have been stuck watching daytime TV while visiting your parents, surely you’re familiar with The Scooter Store. The power wheelchair vendor has had some trouble lately, including accusations of Medicare and Medicaid fraud, a raid by the FBI, and even a lawsuit from the company’s hometown, of New Braunfels, Texas. The company laid off most of its employees, and plans to deal directly with health care providers, rather than blanketing the airwaves and selling directly to consumers.Those investigations came after a scathing investigative piece by CBS News about the company. (Warning: the video at that link plays automatically.) Former salesmen and doctors who prescribed chairs in the past explained the company’s tactics: contact doctors’ offices incessantly to wear them down and convince them to prescribe scooters and power chairs whether the patient really needed one or not, and to depend on bureaucratic incompetence and error to get them approved by Medicare and Medicaid.More
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Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Scooter Store Files For Bankruptcy After Overbilling Medicare At Least $47 Million
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SOME of you are so considered about individuals scamming agencies like this you TOTALLY overlook the BUSINESSES that rip them off and ultimately, US!
NOTHING is free, even taxpayers monies. We the TAXPAYERS have to pay for these gadgets that cost little or nothing to the ones that need them.
Stop watching t.v. and believing these AdSS that tell you anything to make a sale and then rip off the low brow employee's that work for the government. They merely do what their superiors tell them to do, maybe even knowing it is wrong when they do it.
They are making themselves rich and their friends and business contacts rich.
If most of you people were not greedy and always wanting free crap, stuff like this could be curtailed. Do some serious thinking before you buy this stuff and enable it to continue unabated.
how come they only had to pay back a fraction of what they stole. whats up with that. steal millions and pay back nothing. just another government handout.
"...they didn't want to do it, they didn't want to do it..."
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