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WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal strike force has charged 91 people, including a hospital president, doctors and nurses, with Medicare fraud schemes in seven cities involving $429 million in false billings.
At a news conference Thursday, Attorney General Eric Holder said the case reveals an alarming trend in criminal efforts to steal billions of taxpayer dollars for personal gain. Holder called the action one of the largest such law enforcement efforts of its kind. [...]
It’s because of Obamacare that record-setting Medicare fraud busts are beginning to pile up under the watch of Attorney General Eric Holder and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. The quick math says the Obama administration has uncovered at least $1.25 billion in Medicare fraud this year alone.
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