tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2010 Issue 16

What Do You Think? Is There Really More Healthcare Fraud and Abuse These Days?

The answer may surprise you. In reality, healthcare may have become a lucrative new stomping ground for organized crime, say some legal experts. Attorney Robert Markette Jr. says he has, in fact, been claiming for the past couple of years that healthcare fraud perpetrated by organized crime is on the rise. "What we're seeing in Houston, Miami, and Louisiana is outright criminal conduct where witnesses, etc., are ending up dead," says Markette, in Indianapolis, Ind. "It's like 1920 Mafia stuff." He's also heard anecdotal accounts about foreign Mob elements opening up a home health agency to bill...

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