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Government Collects Record-Breaking $835 Million From Fraudulent Medicaid Billers

Published on Wed Mar 06, 2013

For every dollar spent on health care fraud investigations, the government recovered a whopping $7.90. Attempts to defraud the Medicaid program are getting ever bolder by the week. That’s the word from the government’s latest report, entitled The Department of Justice Health Care Fraud and Abuse Control Program Annual Report for Fiscal Year 2012, which indicates that the Department of [...]
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