Saturday, May 10, 2025

It's been EASY to do for decades!-----Large-scale health care fraud and kickback conspiracy that led to more than $127 million in false claims to federal health benefit programs| Medicaid & Medicare Fraud | Fraud of the Day

scheme to use durable medical equipment (DME) companies, telemedicine companies, and doctors in order to submit millions of dollars in false claims to healthcare benefit programs based on a circular scheme of kickbacks and bribes. - Larry Benson 
Empire then paid kickbacks to telemedicine companies, who in turn paid kickbacks to doctors in exchange for prescriptions for the DME...
And then Karlewicz and Romanowski’s step-by-step fraud cycle would repeat. 
  • Empire received over $63 million in kickback payments as a result of this scheme. 
  • In total, Karlewicz and Romanowski caused the submission of over $127 million in false claims...

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