(Bloomberg) -- The U.S. charged 300 people this year in aseries of medical fraud sting operations, the most ever,for allegedly running scams that bilked the government out of $900million.
Takedowns so far this year have involved medical clinics, homehealth-care services and shell companies that submitted fraudulentMedicare and Medicaid claims for tensof millions of dollars at a time, Attorney General Loretta Lynch,Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia MathewsBurwell and other U.S. officials announced Wednesday.
In one example, three individuals were indicted for operatingclinics that gave drug addicts prescriptions for controlledsubstances and narcotics and then billed Medicare for $36 millionin fraudulent claims for services that were never provided.
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