Former NFL Player Convicted

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Joel Rufus French, the owner of a marketing company and a former NFL player, was convicted for his role in a scheme to bilk Medicare and the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Department of Veterans Affairs (CHAMPVA) out of nearly $200 million by selling patient information and sham doctors’ orders for orthotic braces. He worked with overseas call centers that pressured elderly Americans, some having Alzheimer’s and dementia, to provide their personal and health insurance information and agree to accept medically unnecessary orthotic braces. The call centers sometimes altered call recordings to make it seem like Medicare patients agreed to the braces when they did not. Read a story from Men’s Journal and a Department of Justice press release.

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