According to documents in this case, the defendants were indicted for their involvement in a multiyear scheme to defraud Medicare and Indiana Medicaid by submitting fraudulent ambulance transport claims for payment. None of the patients they transported had a medical need for ambulance transport, to and from dialysis. Read a Department of Justice press release. For more information about ambulance fraud, read the SMP National Resource Center’s Ambulance Fraud page.
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