It is estimated that scammers steal more than $100 billion from Medicare and Medicaid annually. A CNBC investigation reveals how scammers use a variety of methods, such as creating fake companies, to steal the funds and cost taxpayers billions.
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#Medicare #Medicaid #Scam
The massive amount of karma coming for the scammers and money thief’s working in the medical system
Yeap, 12 years for 48 million.
@chewy thats just ONE case…
Imagine all the other cases of fraud.
The whole doc thing is a scam
The guy is risking everything to put this out there. He must have not got support from his superiors as many will be involved in such large-scale fraud. This just like a movie.
I did an interview with Mark Wolfson, head of US Department of Health and Family Services back in 2008 about this very subject for CNN. Then too Miami was ground zero for billions in fraud. In some categories like prosthetics, Miami was responsible for 90% of all Medicare fraud in the nation. Miami also had over 750 registered companies actively defrauding on a daily basis. Most with no one in the office.
Mr. Wolfson noted to me during that 20 minute interview, he was alocated 2 enforcement officers for the entire region and was denied when he asked for more. Turned out, Miami lobbyist groups stopped the funding.
Today, I still keep tabs on Medicare fraud in Miami 15 years later. It’s grown into a far bigger Miami industry. 30 times bigger than it was back in 2008. My estimates have their fraud totals at around 25 billion a year. Just in Miami. Most of these criminal organizations are run by either Cuban immigrants, other Latin immigrants and Haitian immigrants. I even know most of their names and the busniesses they use to scam Medicare.
Centro Medico, Pediatra De La Gordita, Conviva Care Center, Santos Health Centers, Cano Health and many, many more. Their patients, also mostly Latin immigrants, are as in on the scam as the owners are. Combined, they take in more stolen tax payer money than the entire tourist industry.
I’ve spent a 4th of my life gathering data and investigating this in Miami. I know far, far more than even the best government investigators do. Who btw, I wouldn’t trust that much either. Since my first interview 15 years ago got very little attention, I never published another article on the subject. I figured Americans didn’t care. So did the scammers.
The Southern border of the US doesn’t have criminal immigrants. Those are just frightened, desperate people. The criminal immigrants litter every street in Miami and are spreading like a virus.
Even in Homestead, Florida, just 24 miles or so South of Miami, mostly illegal immigrants get paid under the table by farms and other busniessee and then claim they have zero earnings. That makes them illegible for food stamps and free or discounted medical care.
Mostly Latinos run these government offices in South Florida and know they’re all lying. But to them, are deserving of scamming American tax payers for every dollar they can squeeze from them. They have contempt for actual Americans.
You’ll notice, no official from the city of Miami made themselves available for this NBC story.
Yes, I could present a decade and a half of evidence, photos, testimonies and secret recordings of all of this. But the truth is, outside of this NBC story and my tiny writing here, again, no one will care and the fleecing of the American tax payer by these criminal immigrants will continue.
USA is a monetary system
cut the phone lines from india
No surprise… Florida is the home state of all kinds of criminals… just look at Trump!
Gross
12.5 years to steal 100 billion sign me up
South Florida is grounds for multiple scams and frauds not only healthcare but also tax fraud and other stuff. They be wilding down there.
This is what happens when the government allows all those immigrants from CUBA and VENEZUELA to move to South Florida!!
It’s not just scammers, the hospitals and doctors aren’t careful with billing either. I was once charged for a medical test in which the apparatus broke down 5 minutes into an hour test. It got denied by my insurance when they billed it, of course, because there was no diagnostic code. I called the complaint line for the hospital and told them the test was never done. They checked and got back to me, and get this one. They blamed ME for the machine breaking due to my weight!!!! I’m 5″5″ and weigh 150. I told them so you are saying no one over what? 140 can’t be tested, that’s stupid? They did more research and found the machine is supposed to handle up to 450 pounds!!! (no kidding)To me it sounded like the technician running the test didn’t want to get in trouble for the machine breaking down! What if the insurance paid it and I would have never known?
It’s a shame because the system is so abused that healthcare has become ridiculously expensive. All these practitioners, medical equipment companies etc charge sky-high amounts because they know Medicare won’t question it.
The Cubans and Indians are super bad they’ve been getting caught everywhere but one heart clinic stole 23 million then he only paid back 5 and lost his license for three yrs big deal
Sorry 🤣😫💯😘
This is new? Please this has been happening for years! I don’t even use my Medicare because I can’t afford the medical bills that Medicare doesn’t pay!
Thats literally about 8% of the federal expenses…
More then that with face to face abuse of individuals.
MAYBE IF HEALTHCARE WAS FREE LMAO WHO WOULD OF THOUGHT OF THAT. IMAGINE IF NO MONEY WAS INVOLVED LIKE CANADA
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The US military is doing the same exact thing.
Super scammers!
the united states stole from me….stole the 400 social security check i earned and called my police pension a windfall profit….please mr putin….nuke washington d c
I once convinced a blind lady she needed these really expensive light bulbs that would never burn out💡
Biden will fix this. Trumpers trying to steal medicare
😭 They can’t do this
what is going to happen
Where are the officials
You can start a fake company and have fake employees and sell medical insurance to people…… loop holes need to be plugged in.
Rick Scott should be apart of this investigation
I will tell you a little secret, the Indians crossing the border from the northern Virginia who have affiliates with HB1 corporate card holders are stealing all your money, so now you go figure.
Aww is somebody stealing money the government stole??? How sad 😔 🤡😂
America the Land of Crimes with little Penalty.
Rick Scott taught them everything they know
When I see him talk and pretend he cares about people, it’s sickening.
Thousands of RN’s and doctors for years have been scamming the system with fake procedures and visits. What’s new here?
Don’t worry. China has scary spy balloons. Mexico is safe because it’s a democracy. You’re fine. Trust your ruling regime.😂
What is the agenda to end information theft leading to the scams and the scams too.
I’m pretty sure the thieves live in Washington
So much lawlessness and chaos in this country…. it’s unfathomable…
Democrats are incompetent morons, who’ve never created a well-designed or well-run program in their lives.
Lock them up. This is major scams setting up fake companies not alotta people do that. Not alotta people are smart enough to do that so the majority of these people doing this might not be the people who everyone thinks it is. Newsflash it isn’t people at the bottom when ur talking about million dollar scams and billions dollar schemes I can only think of one people who even get away with that. People who aren’t Black and Brown.
Madoff
Bit Coin guy
Liz Holmes
Fake Electric Trucks guy
4 examples all billion dollar rip offs pulled by people who aren’t blk or brown here’s why. Everything has to be vetted when ur some brown inventor you don’t walk in rooms and people hand you millions in seed money for ur start up. No ur brown ur gonna be questioned and everything is gonna be checked over 10 times.
Unlike a Liz Holmes who swindled billions out of investors. Walked in meetings white and smiling and Wala people just hand over money.
THIS REEKS CHUMP 🤡
And of course it’s Floridaduh 😡😡😡😡
The government itself is running the scam, don’t be fooled people, don’t !
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$100 BILLION?!!!! Thats just insane. What a waste.
Why isn’t healthcare free like almost every country
If jail time and our legal system weren’t such a sham, criminals may be more deterred. How about when you scam people or businesses for money you are marked a terrorist and put in jail FOREVER? Garces was sentenced to 12.5 years in prison after scamming HOW MUCH?
Florida man strikes again!
I can absolutely guarantee you urgent care is one of those fraud places. Anyone ever go to one . There’s usually no one there
Try finding out where they are getting these lists, and who is selling them
48 million and got 12years.
A pity that we, in our “enlightenment” are too squeamish to execute scammers and other criminals.
I’m pretty sure this is my life for almost a year now struggling to pay my bills. I called and begged everyone even the Medicare # provided in the pamphlet / book. And there response was you need to call the number on the letter you received yeah that’s where the problem started.
If we had the same health care like in other countries, it would remove the temptation to steal but too racism stops it.
This is steal just trifle compared to what the trump family scammed out of America
I can’t stand a thief
Republicans are right, we need less government employees investigating stuff like this.
Never audit means no crimes been committed 😆.
Sounds like they government should be spending money going after such fraud instead of debt forgiveness and the space force and ufo investigations that lead nowhere near conclusive
Just another reason we need universal healthcare so that these doctors etc get fixed salaries and have no incentive to scam since they wont get paid from it.
Dhs are the new prison numbers (reform)
Wow this is a big surprise to me please don’t tell me this has been going on for years lol
Years? Try decades.
Lester Holt works for a domestic terrorist organization that hides behind journalism to push fake news propaganda nothing but lies fabricator of false information and now we know the truth about January 6th and this guy told a lot of lies and deceptive misinformation to the public now it’s all going to catch up to the liberal news media NBC CBS ABC MSNBC CNN and the list goes on and all the contributors and guests they had on their shows with the lies that came out of their mouth they are all going to be exposed now every one of them do not trust these people for anything not even the time and temperature
DeSantis on the job , helping crooks take our tax dollars !!!
Same thing Rick Scott did in FL when owned HCA. $1.7billion fine for stealing Medicare & Medicaid. Rewarded by being elected to Congress!
This isn’t anything new by any stretch. This story is solely for the purpose of helping Joe B. grease the skids to justify raising taxes “to help Medicare” in the upcoming budget battle. MSNBC is the absolute worst.
Why I keep getting these chase fraud alerts and its not even my card number
All of these medical clinics popping up in the community . They don’t take Medicaid or Medicare you have to pay. . Then they bill you after paying with credit card or cash. This happened to me when I was going to get my son tested for Covid and they didn’t take Medicaid. I received a bill later for the test that I paid for .
Imagine if we go digital ooo we will be hacked.
DeSantis could make himself useful by taking a look at this…..seems like banning books is more important!!
Drs bill 24 hrs in a Day . They see you for 15 mins and bill for a half hour or more .
Bangladesh, Somalia, RUSSIAN’S I.T. scammers training program is now available for purchase on CDs with flat discount for overachievers, if interested
Contact you local federal cyber OP’s agencies
police in the USA are very bad and unprofessional.
ask Biden. He allows a lot of criminal crimes in the USA. It is totally different when Trump was President.
12.5 years in prison is not enough.
“Scammers stealing billions of dollars from Medicare and Medicaid, investigation reveals” so let’s otherwise “Convince It Forward”
We need to hire 10,000 fraud agents to investigate healthcare fraud, the defense industry, wage theft, and other scams of all sorts. A single payer healthcare system would save billions and greatly reduce fraud.
Si yes many people use. Medical de otras y es fraude. Son muy. Abusibas. Van al dentista. Y usan el medical de otas. Yono louso por. Que. Disen q los us tiene deudas y. Mejor pago. Si es leve o no de emerge cia.
OIG office here has been closed for “water damage”.
Interesting.
We need to hire people the check out these scams. To check on companies to see what they are spending and where the money’s going and if they’re doing what they’re supposed to be doing.🎻🪕🎻🪕🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 It’s not about one system it’s about hiring people. We need jobs out here and we’re desperate.
The Vatican does this in all their Hospitals. Nothing new, they have been ripping America off for 50 years. They do the same with their University’s and Churches. Then they brag about it in their annual literature. One hospital made over $800,000,000 one year doing the exact same thing. Then they use the money to buy equipment, new hospitals, pay staff ext. As long as it’s Catholic it’s 100% legal. 🤫
scamming the scammers, classic.
Yeah, those scammers are called the GOP and anyone who supports our insanely corrupt healthcare system in this country.
You start with Miami. No surprise here. Remember, Florida Senator Rick Scott has ties to Medicare fraud in the past. Why wouldn’t it continue when politicians are soft on that crime!
its not just medicare and medacaid, there are tons of entiltlement programs that are abused, costing our country probably trillions of dollars
Now no children step mother Africa Asian Vice president Harris no Bollywood on mother’s right
To end this problem of stealing anything, just FORCE the rich people and corporations to REDISTRIBUTE MONEY EQUALLY WORLDWIDE, because the wage is obviously slavery and illegal! And money never should have been distributed unequally in the first place!!!
Another government program filled with fraud, waste and abuse and yet, the lunatic left wants this very same government running all health care in America.
Not only are people do this so does the medical field. Stealing is stealing. Tell me about medical doing the same thing. People go before big pharma.🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣that’s them
White ppl crimes. . black ppl and minorities comment ( low level) crimes and get used as a distraction using the media while white ppl do what they do best
Where is the oversight ?
WHAT! Medicare and Medicaid fraud!!!! I remember that Obama was going to shut down Medicare fraud and use the five hundred million dollars to help pay for his health care law. What happened? Oh yeah, nothing. Just like other presidents to vowed to do the same thing.
Ummm Medicaid Fraud…paging Ron DeSantis
The penalty for stealing all that money should not be jail time, but hard physical work for 20 years like farming or construction no machinery and then that crime will not happen again this country. We need the workers. We don’t need inmates.
Distributing money never works; and it will always end up funneling money to surrogates or fraudsters. You need a gov run health care system (like a public Kaiser running in a handful of regions) that is monitored by a bi-partisan and independent board for its planning, execution and expense, and to ensure that it runs efficiently with well defined performance metrics. There are a lot of fraudsters and even sizable companies in this country cheating money from the gov and from other people.
Yall making us starve wtf y’all except
I should sue like everyone else does. I can’t even afford my antibiotics right now over a $100 each and this man is stealing millions.
Can this be detected on our monthly statements? Where they report what they paid for what service?
And they call you a conspiracy theorist if you don’t trust doctors 🙄
Most people just call them Congressmen, but I like the term scammers because it a more fitting description.
they’re over here penny pinching us left and right for what we need when they know exactly how they commit the fraud and have known long enough to do years long investigations and still haven’t changed anything. That’s not what we mean by oversight geniuses. It’s called negligence.