Operation Gold Rush, largest health care fraud bust in U.S. history

29 pointsposted 7 months ago
by brandonb

10 Comments

ceejayoz

7 months ago

https://archive.is/ogZ9F

I'm not sure about the largest claim.

A sitting Senator, Rick Scott, oversaw a larger defrauding of Medicare. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Scott

> The U.S. Department of Justice won 14 felony convictions against the company, which was fined $1.7 billion in what was at the time the largest healthcare fraud settlement in U.S. history.

Refreeze5224

7 months ago

I assumed this was going to be about US Senator Rick Scott, because that's who comes to mind when I hear "massive Medicare fraud". But there seems to be a new contender for the title now.

daft_pink

7 months ago

The unfortunate reality is that this doesn't effectively address the issue of providers who offer services but might employ questionable tactics, such as splitting a $250 cash-priced genetic test during pregnancy into a $5,000 insurance claim and a $1,000 coinsurance bill for the patient. When we reported nonsense like this the insurance company doesn’t seem to care at all.

zzzeek

7 months ago

Waste, fraud and abuse discovered during the Biden administration that absolutely dwarfs anything DOGE ever dreamed of.

too bad FBI / DOJ et al are all run by right wing media clowns now.

readthenotes1

7 months ago

I doubt it dwarfs what Doge dreamed of, just what they were able to--or felt safe to--expose.

ceejayoz

7 months ago

Ah, yes, DOGE accomplished essentially nothing because the President of the United States and the richest man on the planet were too scared to reveal what they found.

That's some next-level cope.

zzzeek

7 months ago

DOGE couldn't reveal what they found! ELON couldn't handle it and had to leave! The TRUTH....went deeper than Cigarette Man ever dreamed... The one man who KNEW IT ALL had only one job, to save the world.

and his name?

Big Balls

Spooky23

7 months ago

Scared, or inspired? Both are prodigious practitioners of grift.

esseph

7 months ago

Seriously, they could have put the greatest minds in the fucking world to work on this problem, and they basically grabbed a bunch of loyal script kiddies for a few months.

I cannot get over this take. What happened was clear as day.

esseph

7 months ago

Lol

They sent digital child soldiers.

They were never serious, they just wanted unquestioned authority and optics.