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Article: Updated: Los Angeles Medicare Fraud Strike Force Charges 20 in Health Care Fraud Cases Involving Durable Medical Equipment.
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- Biotech Week
- Article date:
- November 4, 2009
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Twenty defendants, most of them residing in the Los Angeles area, have been charged in seven cases for allegedly participating in Medicare fraud schemes that resulted in more than $26 million in fraudulent bills to the Medicare program, announced Assistant Attorney General of the Criminal Division Lanny A. Breuer, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California George S. Cardona and Daniel R. Levinson, Inspector General of the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) (see also Medicare and Medicaid).
Federal and state agents arrested seven of the defendants this morning, and seven others were taken into custody last week, as the result of an ...