tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2010 Issue 5

INDUSTRY NOTES:South Florida Medicare Racketeers Way Ahead Of The Law

Former drug dealers switching over to Medicare fraud as a lucrative career shift. From cocaine to the Cogan Syndrome, many drug dealers in South Florida have been slowly but steadily switching over to Medicare fraud in the past three years. An article posted on www.npr.org says the FBI has interviewed those that have been arrested and, according to Malcolm Sparrow of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, the primary reason they give is, "there's more money, there's much less chance of being caught and if I do get caught, I'll be treated like a white-collar criminal, not like...

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