NYT: Doctors Accused of Defrauding Medicaid, Using Homeless People in Whistleblower Fraud Scheme
A new low in Medicaid fraud? Exploiting homeless and taxpayers at once.
— Shayne Stevenson
"Mr. Rorie was recruiting homeless people, prosecutors said, and whoever had a valid Medicaid card would be packed into a van and sent to medical clinics around New York City. There, after hours of unnecessary tests and fake diagnoses, the homeless people would be sent off with sneakers — selected from stacks of shoeboxes in the clinics’ basements. The doctors, staff members and billing specialists, meanwhile, would rack up hundreds or thousands of dollars per recruit in false Medicaid claims, prosecutors said." Full article »