Were all these "free-money" frauds planned??!!-----19 Charged in $4 Million Philadelphia Medicare, Medicaid Fraud Scheme - AG Staff

The defendants named in the case include owners of home health care companies, their employees and Medicaid recipients who allegedly conspired to bill the government for services that were never rendered, according to prosecutors.

• Other defendants are accused of submitting billing records with overlapping or physically impossible hours, including claims for care that supposedly exceeded 24 hours within a single day, a red flag prosecutors say should have been caught far sooner given the scale of federal spending on these programs.

The Philadelphia case comes as Pennsylvania Attorney General Dave Sunday announced a plea agreement in a separate but related fraud case, in which 21 people were charged with defrauding Medicaid of more than $1.7 million...