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Operation Gold Rush, largest health care fraud bust in U.S. history
- ceejayoz 1y agohttps://archive.is/ogZ9F 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 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.
- zzzeek 1y agoWaste, 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 1y agoI doubt it dwarfs what Doge dreamed of, just what they were able to--or felt safe to--expose.
- ceejayoz 1y agoAh, 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.
- Spooky23 1y agoScared, or inspired? Both are prodigious practitioners of grift.
- zzzeek 1y agoDOGE 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
- esseph 1y agoLol They sent digital child soldiers. They were never serious, they just wanted unquestioned authority and optics.
- esseph 1y agoSeriously, 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.
- Refreeze5224 1y agoI 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 1y agoThe 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.