by Ashley Oliver and Greg Wehner at Fox News
Medicare scams allegedly included $10B catheter scheme with Russian connections and unnecessary procedures on the dying
The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced sweeping charges Monday against more than 300 defendants, alleging they misled patients into paying for, and sometimes receiving, medical care that they did not need.
In turn, DOJ Criminal Division chief Matthew Galeotti said, the defendants also attempted to swindle Medicare and other taxpayer-funded and private health insurance programs out of about $14.6 billion.
The announcement marked the “largest coordinated healthcare fraud takedown in the history of the Department of Justice,” Galeotti said during a press conference.
One set of charges included, for example, an indictment against three defendants in Arizona who allegedly conspired to purchase and give elderly Medicare recipients skin grafts known as “amniotic wound allografts.” The defendants allegedly reaped millions of dollars from the practice.
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