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I'm sure it's far higher than that percent. But it's questionable on how you define fraud. For example, is it fraud for an Ambulance service to pay $100 to a ta

I'm sure it's far higher than that percent. But it's questionable on how you define fraud. For example, is it fraud for an Ambulance service to pay $100 to a taxi for a referral to transport a someone on medicaid / medicare if their trip has any inkling of a medical reason. Is it fraud for transport companies to take people wherever they want to go so long as they make some type of medical stop (grocery store with pharmacy) at some point during the trip. Is it fraud to blanket an area with signs saying "Cash for Diabetic Testing Strips" then go around door to door and sell (bill medicaid) testing strips to Medicaid recipients? Is it fraud that multiple FedEx trucks are needed every day to drop off "Mom's meals" which never get picked up in the lobby of any given senior apartment building? I'm sure there's lots of examples of obvious outright fraud where things are never done or delivered, but there's orders of magnitude more scams that aren't clearly illegal. Half of my high school class seems to have some sort of scam that involves billing the government. There are multiple people that have "Medical transport companies" they go to the USVI and recruit drivers then buy some shitty minivan and slap a large magnetic sticker on it and offer free rides so long as you do something vaguely medical.

costco 4y ago
> Is it fraud to blanket an area with signs saying "Cash for Diabetic Testing Strips" then go around door to door and sell (bill medicaid) testing strips to Medicaid recipients? I saw one of these and was sort of confused (if you're diabetic don't you need the test strips?) but apparently this is legal and happens everywhere! It seems it isn't legal for pills because it's considered "misbranding" and there are some storage requirements but when I read about cases of that it sounded even more alarming. People with HIV selling expensive HIV medicines they got for free for $20.

costco 4y ago

> Is it fraud to blanket an area with signs saying "Cash for Diabetic Testing Strips" then go around door to door and sell (bill medicaid) testing strips to Medicaid recipients? I saw one of these and was sort of confused (if you're diabetic don't you need the test strips?) but apparently this is legal and happens everywhere! It seems it isn't legal for pills because it's considered "misbranding" and there are some storage requirements but when I read about cases of that it sounded even more alarming. People with HIV selling expensive HIV medicines they got for free for $20.