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This is the sort of action we need more of to help combat corruption and restore some basic faith in the medical industry, but it's only a start. The conviction
by autoexec 2y ago
This is the sort of action we need more of to help combat corruption and restore some basic faith in the medical industry, but it's only a start. The convictions that follow have to come with severe enough consequences to more than offset the the millions they got while hurting patients and stealing from taxpayers. If the people involved get away with a slap on the wrist or fines that are only a fraction of what they made in profit it will only encourage others to do the same thing. Any doctors accepting kickbacks should, at the very least, lose their license and be prevented from practicing medicine again.
- marcod 2y agoThe other good news of the day was that the Sackler family lost much of their future prosecution immunity https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40813369 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40813369
- toomuchtodo 2y agoAlways nice when a little bit of hope shines through the darkness.
- rdtsc 2y agoI suspect this is just a the tip of the iceberg. These clowns are just the dumb ones who got caught. I mean they bought books on "how to disappear" and "how to avoid criminal prosecution". I guess the smart ones get away with it regularly. It's sad really. > The convictions that follow have to come with severe enough consequences to more than offset the the millions they got while hurting patients and stealing from taxpayers. I wish they land in prison for many years and then have to pay back what they stole and for all the court fees as well.
- Icathian 2y agoI worked in this space as a statistician. You are completely correct. The environment is so incredibly target rich and resources are so limited that only the biggest and most obviously winnable cases are pursued.
- dheera 2y agoRelated: https://hospitalogy.com/articles/2024-06-18/done-adhd-telehealth-patient-exploitation-ruthia-he-deception/ https://hospitalogy.com/articles/2024-06-18/done-adhd-telehe...
- paulpauper 2y agoWhen people talk about price distortion, this is it. Reimbursements always open up the possibility for abuse.
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- briffle 2y agoBut this fraud is huge, so you can be all but certain this will go on for years, and then a fine of 5% or less of what they took, and no admission of wrongdoing…,
- resource_waste 2y agoThe legal thing to do is to over-treat and do sessions in 8 minute increments so you can round up. Cornwell health does it!
- ativzzz 2y agoYes totally, and then we need stricter regulations to keep this from happening again. Unfortunately every regulation makes healthcare even more expensive and adds more middlemen and makes healthcare companies hire more paper pushers to make sure they're meeting regulations. Every single fraudster costs future Americans a ton more money than they just stole