Sunday, November 16, 2014

How Agents Hunt for Fraud in Trove of Medicare Data Law-Enforcement Officials Estimate Fraud Accounts for as Much as 10% of Medicare's Yearly Spending August 2014

HOLLYWOOD HILLS, Calif.—Eleven armed FBI agents crept around a stone-and-glass house here just before dawn. An AR-15 rifle and four other guns were registered to the man in the house.
"FBI warrant," the agents called out, and a man in a T-shirt and shorts emerged.
It was no drug lord. The target was a doctor who moonlighted as a movie producer with an Alec Baldwin comedy to his credit. The Justice Department charged the doctor, Robert A. Glazer, with writing prescriptions and certifications resulting in $33 million of fraudulent Medicare claims.
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