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Report finds a substantial increase in marketing materials and tactics to trick seniors.

He required patients to submit to steroid injections, even when they caused more pain.

Drugs were not dispensed to beneficiaries but were sold on the black market.

Once they have Medicare numbers, they’re on their way to identity theft.

He contracted with marketers who placed ads that offered orthotic braces at no cost.

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He submitted claims for 151 purported X-ray services on dates after the patients had died.

Medicare beneficiaries were recruited to accept prescriptions they didn’t want or need.

He falsely certified medical necessity for DME or genetic tests for more than 2,000 patients.

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