Braces Busted

[lobelsteve]

Feds take down $1 billion Medicare fraud scheme targeting the elderly and disabled — NBC News

An international telemarketing network lured hundreds of thousands of elderly or disabled patients into a criminal scheme, prosecutors said.

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[emd123]

Went through a call center in the Phillipines then through kickbacks to telemedicine MDs that never examined the patients. Seems legit
(not. Lol).

 

[callmeanesthesia]

I get faxed requests all the time from shady medical equipment companies asking me to sign off on braces - usually several per patient (back, knee, wrist). Sounds like a similar scam. Talked to one of my patients about it and she had called one of those TV ads and they had talked her out of her info. They all go straight in the shred bin - I don’t care if the patient requested it or not. They can go through a legitimate local business and I’m not going to sign off on a brace for something I never examined the patient for.

 

[SommeRiver]

Put them all in prison forever - Chain gang, not television prison.