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Economy

mahatmakanejeeves

(57,489 posts) Sat Jul 20, 2019, 04:15 PM Jul 2019

Health care fraud

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Just a freaking amazing thread:

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1/ A woman discovered her ex husband was defrauding health insurance companies for millions. She tried bringing him to justice. It didn’t go as expected. (This story is one of the wildest I’ve reported.) Here’s what happened:

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24/ In all, from the time Lankford found the texts, it took authorities *3 years* to finally stop “Dr. Dave.” In total, he ran the scheme for more than 4 years, billing top insurance companies like @UHC, @Aetna + @Cigna for $25 million and reaping about $4 million in cash.