DOJ: Over 300 people charged, including
100 medical professionals, in $16.4B ‘National
Health Care Fraud Takedown’
One America News,
by
Blake Wolf
Original Article
Posted By: sunset,
6/30/2025 10:30:33 PM
The Department of Justice has charged 324 individuals, including 100 medical professionals, due to their alleged involvement in a $16.4 billion healthcare fraud scheme, marking the largest healthcare fraud takedown in DoJ history. The $14.6 billion scheme spanned across all 50 states – resulting in law enforcement seizing over $245 million in cash, cryptocurrency and luxury vehicles, among other assets. Just in Arizona, a United Arab Emirates-based billing company had allegedly defrauded Medicaid of $650 million, and the company targeted Native American and homeless patients for “addiction treatment scams,” according to the Washington Examiner.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
seamusm 6/30/2025 11:01:48 PM (No. 1971462)
$16.4 billion....ooohhh! I'm so impressed --- NOT! This is chump change.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Catherine 6/30/2025 11:07:24 PM (No. 1971463)
I've had two drs since I moved here who rarely had anyone else in their office when I went for a visit. I could not figure out how they stayed in business. Well I did catch one charging for a home visit when it was an office visit and once they did page after page of lab tests, stupid stuff like testing a 70 year old woman for testosterone and breastfeeding capability. (Which was never done.)The charges were in the thousands. So I believe this $16 billion fraud story. Go get 'em.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Northcross 6/30/2025 11:08:37 PM (No. 1971464)
Wherever the government hands out large sums of money with feeble means to account for it, a significant percentage will be fraudulently sucked up. Next, let's see how much welfare fraud we can find.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
DVC 7/1/2025 12:39:46 AM (No. 1971480)
Unsurprising. You know what they call the guy who finishes in 300th place in a med school class of 300?
Doctor.
And some of these folks go on to steal rather than heal.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
crashnburn 7/1/2025 1:05:49 AM (No. 1971489)
#1) One dollar stolen is one dollar too many!
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
anniebc 7/1/2025 3:36:48 AM (No. 1971497)
One way to stop government fraud is to end public programs, subsidies, and yes, entitlements. They're seizing funds, so these arrests and prosecutions are good, but the real fraud is in the bureaucracy itself and the bureaucrats who allow the fraud; they absolutely know it's happening, and they've chosen to allow it. Who's getting the kickbacks? Dan Bongino said, "Results matter. Talk is cheap. And this is not even the beginning of the beginning. If you’re stealing from the public, or violating your oath to serve, then we’re coming for you too." It's that part about "violating your oath to serve" and "coming for you too" that interests me. I'm anxious to hear those prosecutions are announced with names.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
mifla 7/1/2025 4:24:32 AM (No. 1971499)
In a related story, American taxpayers have been accused by the government of not paying their fair share of taxes.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Strike3 7/1/2025 6:20:19 AM (No. 1971508)
So, Pam Bondi has been busy tracking down fraudsters and recovering stolen billions instead of reviewing the Jeffrey Epstein tapes. A lot of people are disappointed.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
privateer 7/1/2025 6:42:05 AM (No. 1971516)
UAE billing company? Arabs involved in stealing? Say it ain't so!
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
DCGIRL 7/1/2025 6:45:10 AM (No. 1971519)
#1, this is a big deal. This is our taxpayer's money. ALL fraud should be found and punished.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Mizz Fixxit 7/1/2025 6:47:55 AM (No. 1971523)
FTA: “Just in Arizona, a United Arab Emirates-based billing company had allegedly defrauded Medicaid of $650 million, and the company targeted Native American and homeless patients for “addiction treatment scams,” according to the Washington Examiner.
Show all 324 mugshots. Now, please. My stereotypes are out of control.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
JHHolliday 7/1/2025 6:50:06 AM (No. 1971524)
The poor areas of Appalachia have some doctors who are more or less just pill providers. Go for a visit, complain about back pain etc. They take your blood pressure, listen to your heart and write you a prescription for pain killers. Some of the pharmacies have to know what's going on but I don't want to slur them all.
There are some who genuinely care and elect to treat patients in that area when they could make more money elsewhere.
It's a genuine problem and creates a lot of people addicted to opioids though I have driven through that area a couple of times and can feel empathy for the people with little hope who have to live there.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Mizz Fixxit 7/1/2025 6:55:27 AM (No. 1971528)
Please excuse the second post. There are two amounts shown in article. $14.6 billion and $16.4 billion. Consider the lesser figure of 14.6. That is the approximate cost of building 146 new high schools.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Catfur27 7/1/2025 7:13:43 AM (No. 1971535)
Media Translation : Trump is CUTTING Healthcare !!!!!
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Doctors lost all assumption of ethical behavior during covid, but this reveals why many of them went into the profession. Cash!
We are experiencing a doctor shortage locally. More people are forced to go to urgent care because you just can't get in to see a doctor for weeks. Yet medical schools still seem to be limiting graduation rates. Taking these bad apples out of the mix should be further motivation to up the admissions to medical school.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
homefry 7/1/2025 8:26:33 AM (No. 1971580)
The fraud in the medical business in my opinion goes all the way from pharmacists and therapists, to brain surgeons.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
felixcat 7/1/2025 8:27:38 AM (No. 1971581)
Every Republican in Congress should be talking about this insurance e fraud when discussing the need cuts to Medicaid. Even though this was Medicare fraud, there is fraud in Medicaid and all those "cuts to Medicaid" that the Dems and Senator Tills are whining about is requiring able boded adults to work, volunteer or attend job training at least 20 hours a week to receive Medicaid and remove illegal aliens from receiving Medicaid. There are not "cuts' to those recipients who Medicaid was designed to help.
So sick of the Dem and squishy Republican gaslighting.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 7/1/2025 8:47:39 AM (No. 1971590)
Shoulda known... there are far too many wealthy Democrats among us... especially the ones who get wealthy in politics.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Encore 7/1/2025 9:08:41 AM (No. 1971596)
In the meantime; Democrats and Rino’s are still wanting illegals to receive medicaid. In what world is that right? How can one honestly justify charging taxpayers for this?
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 7/1/2025 9:11:42 AM (No. 1971597)
Lots of people on the take, it seems. (My math isn't good enough to cover my tracks, (Shucky darn!)
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Zigrid 7/1/2025 9:15:10 AM (No. 1971598)
I've known something wasn't right about the medical community...I kept getting calls about pneumonia and covid vaccines from the government....my doctor told me right from the beginning...10 plus years ago..."you don't have to do anything you don't want to do"....she has been a treasure....it's like the text I get telling me it's the IRS and I must call them regarding a mistake I made on my forms....yeah right...nice try....
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
NotaBene 7/1/2025 11:08:08 AM (No. 1971654)
Doctors pushing mRNA vaccines (Influenza and Covid) or castrations are also fraudsters.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Starboard_side 7/1/2025 11:16:40 AM (No. 1971659)
Agree with #17.
Considering this huge fraud case wasn't even mentioned on the news or in the newspaper.
They're too busy talking about the ICE raids at the Home Depot which is giving the Democrats cover to not report any of this type of activity.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
preciosodrogas 7/1/2025 11:35:02 AM (No. 1971672)
This is great and it carries over to lower the temptation to do it.
I think AG Bondi should be able to tackle things like this and still follow through on lots of other matters. She would be one odd AG if she is actually handling each and every case personally. Promises made ... If the promises cannot be kept then explain why they cannot be kept. We are not like other countries. WTP deserves to be kept in the know while understanding there are some matters than must be kept secret for a time.
Re: # 12, Some folks in Appalachia do a lot of physical work and it does cause back pain and other physical discomfort. Not all have the money it would take to get the life style or treatment that would be needed, and not can afford to take the time to do it. Pain medicine is a good option. In fact, if the medicine is working that's good enough. Things like spinal fusion recommend for back pain does not have a 100% success rate - which may take them back to the pain medicine. The docs know their patients.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
mc squared 7/1/2025 1:14:12 PM (No. 1971718)
" a United Arab Emirates-based billing company.."
So hard to believe.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
pensom2 7/1/2025 1:40:04 PM (No. 1971728)
LOL #25. An outfit headquartered (ostensibly) in UAE should have been a red flag two or three years ago and should have prompted an investigation stopping all billing payments or "reimbursements" until resolved. But of course, the brain-dead DEI hires responsible for examining the payment system never thought to do anything beyond their immediate job description.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
mifla 7/1/2025 2:55:39 PM (No. 1971740)
Enough of this never ending stealing from the taxpayers.
Read their crimes on national TV and have them flogged before sending them off to jail. All money earned while in jail goes back to the taxpayers.
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