Medicaid get paid!!! (New York, York: taxes, licensed, bills)

[Yeadon718]

I heard state has been cracking down on these medicaid schemes as of late. Has anyone seen any folks lately doing it lately? There was a big bust in the Bronx about a week or so ago. They normally stand outside of HRA buildings or walk along strips in the hood and yell "medicaid get paid!!", "get $25 for a physical!!", "$40 for a stress test!!", etc...

[wawaweewa]

Feds Charge 300 in Nation's Largest Health Care Fraud Bust

In one cases in the roundup, authorities say, five people were arrested in Brooklyn, accused of cheating Medicare and Medicaid in an $86 million scam in which they paid kickbacks to patients who then received unnecessary physical and occupational therapy.

The five are accused of funneling more than $38 million worth of reimbursements on the $86 million in bills through several New York shell companies that purported to provide consulting, marketing and advertising services but were actually intended to hide the money from the IRS and avoid taxes. Among those charged were a licensed occupational therapist and a licensed physical therapist.