Largest Medicare Fraud, Ever
Authorities allege that Roy and his office manager in DeSoto, Texas, Teri Sivils, who was also charged, sent the healthcare recruiters door-to-door asking residents to sign forms that contained the doctor’s electronic signature and stated that his practice had seen them professionally in their own homes.
They also allegedly dispatched more recruiters to a homeless shelter in Dallas, paying them $50 every time they coaxed a street person to go to a nearby parking lot and sign the bogus forms.
Full article by Richard A. Serrano from the Washington Bureau on the largest healthcare fraud scam in the nation’s history in Los Angeles Times.
You have to wonder. Don’t these people know they are eventually going to get caught?
After 30 years practicing medicine…you would think physicians know better.
Some doctors, if not all, just need a serious lesson on ethics. Enough said.
Investigators only recovered about $3 million. But he cheated the government out of $375 million dollars (his cut was something like $19 million). At his home, he had books on how to disappear and live abroad. When investigators first came calling last year; or when they stopped reimbursing his earlier practice, maybe he should have taken it as a sign that it was time to leave. Now they will most likely spend the rest of his life in prison. Maybe some of the other fraudsters will take notice.
Wow, terrible.
Absolutely Amazing: “In the last fiscal year they recovered nearly $4.1 billion in funds “stolen or taken improperly from federal healthcare programs,” he said. “This represents the highest amount ever recovered in a single year.”
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