Takedown Nets 15 Defendants

The Justice Department announced charges against 15 defendants, including six medical professionals, for healthcare fraud schemes that collectively resulted in $2 billion in fraudulent claims to government and private healthcare programs, including sham substance abuse treatment programs, unnecessary artery treatments, and bogus hospice services. The alleged fraud includes more than $1.6 billion billed in a scheme to lure vulnerable individuals to California for sham substance abuse treatment, the largest case of its type ever prosecuted by the Department of Justice. Watch and read a story from KTLA  and read a Department of Justice press release.

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