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Brandon is not your bro's avatar

I hope money gets returned to we the people, those guilty go to jail .

Vinu Arumugham #MAHA's avatar

"2025 National Health Care Fraud Takedown"

Annual feature? Suggests they just caught some scapegoats and left the masterminds intact to repeat this ritual annually?

denise ward's avatar

Right on. This is just to make us think they're onto things. But look how far they let it go.

PandoraChaser's avatar

Same with D.E.A Drug War, it is all bogus when the GOV itself is the real drug runner all along both illegal and legal, they only arrest a few small fry that got too big for their boots and were cutting in on GOV action.

Antoinette's avatar

This is stunning! Our team is to be congratulated for their phenomenally well-coordinated operation.

diana's avatar

Fraud is bad, yes. But this is not the reason why US medical care is so expensive. Far from it.

Stephen Korn, MD's avatar

And what would those reason(s) be, Diana?

Prayer Warrior Paisley's avatar

YES, THIS IS WHAT I VOTED FOR 🤸‍♀️🎉👏🇺🇲

Raul F. Bustos's avatar

The bigger question is will the go after the Big Pharmaceutical Executive s or are they a protected class?

Diane N's avatar

Fraud prevention has to be an ongoing process as it is in any industry. It's great that they discovered and stopped all this, but that is part of the job. That money belongs to us, we are the ones who pay and paid into it, if the government is going to manage it then they need to manage it properly. I don't think it would be appropriate to impose any new or burdensome regulations on the average Medicare/Medicaid recipient because of all this, sounds like the error was all theirs.

denise ward's avatar

They let it happen, it ought to come out of their pay.

PandoraChaser's avatar

Error? Or intended exploit by design? This will tip of the iceberg.

Diane N's avatar

It probably is intended fraud that will lead to more surveillance tactics fir recipients who will accept them because under the guise of fraud prevention

denise ward's avatar

I think government is finding these frauds now to make us think they're doing something about things. But really what it shows is such utter neglect and incompetence or deliberate oversight, to have let things go this far. Is there anything the government gets right? I can't think of one thing. And it's funny they find this yet don't look into the kickbacks from pharma to medical practitioners, hospitals, universities, media, etc.

PandoraChaser's avatar

Yup they knew this all along and it goes way way higher and was always there by design. Just like a fake Drug Wars busts, the real Don of it all is the GOV itself, merely arresting small fry cutting in on their own action.

BAwls's avatar

I would expect a FULL listing of the names of banks that laundered the money and how much they laundered. A full listing of ALL shell companies in this country.

The amount recovered is piddly at best. How was DOGE involved if at all.

Deep patterns in diagnosis, procedure, lab and medications data could easily be discovered if there was a WILL to do so. Many hospitals have arrangements with pharmacies on-site. Kickbacks anyone. This fraud has undoubtedly lead to massive deaths in vulnerable populations. Waiting for the MURDER charges... hell freezes over...