Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar announced that 601 individuals are being charged in the largest ever health care fraud enforcement action.
The indictment includes 165 doctors, nurses, and other licensed medical professionals, who allegedly participated in fraud schemes amounting to more than $2 billion in false billings. One hundred and sixty-two of the defendants were charged "for their roles in prescribing and distributing opioids and other dangerous narcotics," according to a press release by the Department of Justice.
"Health care fraud is a betrayal of vulnerable patients, and often it is theft from the taxpayer," said Attorney General Jeff Sessions. He continued,
"In many cases, doctors, nurses, and pharmacists take advantage of people suffering from drug addiction in order to line their pockets. These are despicable crimes.… Today the Department of Justice is announcing the largest health care fraud enforcement action in American history. This is the most fraud, the most defendants, and the most doctors ever charged in a single operation—and we have evidence that our ongoing work has stopped or prevented billions of dollars’ worth of fraud.
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Another way to look at it is the government not keeping tabs on this before 2017, costing the People billions in fraudulent billing and tens of billions in additional health care for the addicts they had a hand in creating.
Obamacare at its best
It used to be between Patients, their Doctors and hospitals, and private health insurers who looked after their bottom lines.
Now, with the added Government layer of "Ex-Spurts" running the show, like every other government program, fraud becomes easy and therefore rampant.
Again, we shouted this from the rooftops over and over again. We read it and shouted louder.
But your Nancy Girl had to "pass it so we can see what's in it".
Now you know "what's in it". Suck it up or get behind our POTUS and make Congress change it back.
598 of the criminals are registered Democrats, and 2 independents.
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