US Attorney Doctor Sentenced for $70M Medicare Fraud Scheme

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Press Release: U.S. Attorney’s Office, District of Maryland

A Texas doctor was sentenced today to 10 years in prison and ordered to pay $26,622,522.82 in restitution for his role in a scheme to defraud Medicare by prescribing durable medical equipment and cancer genetic testing without seeing, speaking to, or otherwise treating patients.

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[Monello]

1 guy doing $70M in medicare fraud. How much fraud is in that system? It has to be in the tens of billions. It's just too big to validate all the claims. Your tax dollars.