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yortsed snacilbuper

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Sun Oct 7, 2012, 02:55 AM Oct 2012

Feds charge 91 people in $430 million Medicare fraud scheme

WASHINGTON — A federal strike force has charged 91 people, including a hospital president, doctors and nurses, with Medicare fraud schemes in seven cities involving $429 million in false billings. [...]

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said that that in addition to the newly announced criminal charges, her agency used new authority under the Obama administration's health care law to stop future payments to many of the health care providers suspected of fraud.

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Feds charge 91 people in $430 million Medicare fraud scheme (Original Post) yortsed snacilbuper Oct 2012 OP
sknaht, yortsed NBachers Oct 2012 #1

NBachers

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1. sknaht, yortsed
Sun Oct 7, 2012, 03:26 AM
Oct 2012

Maybe some of the other miscreants hear footsteps closing in on them in the dark, night-time streets

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