Eight Arrested in Health Care Fraud Takedown

Eight defendants, including three nurses, a chiropractor, and a purported psychologist, have been arrested on federal charges that they schemed to defraud the nation’s health care system out of more than $50 million – including by running sham hospice care facilities that bilked Medicare by using people without terminal illnesses as beneficiaries. One beneficiary couple allegedly was approached at a market about signing up for hospice and received $600 in cash per month for six months. The couple also reported receiving unneeded items such as nutritional shakes, nonprescription vitamins, and wheelchairs. Read a story from Hospice News and a Department of Justice press release.

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