(the) Health Savings Accounts Blog » medicare http://www.msainfo.net/health-savings-accounts-blog HSA plans and general healthcare Sun, 28 Mar 2010 21:28:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Homeless become fake patients in hospital fraud cases http://www.msainfo.net/health-savings-accounts-blog/fraud-on-skid-row-hospitals-accused-of-using-homeless-as-fake-patients/ http://www.msainfo.net/health-savings-accounts-blog/fraud-on-skid-row-hospitals-accused-of-using-homeless-as-fake-patients/#comments Wed, 06 Aug 2008 18:14:36 +0000 admin http://msainfo.net/health-savings-accounts-blog/?p=11 Several LA county hospitals are being accused of massive Medicare fraud by recruiting homeless people and having them admitted with fake health conditions, solely for the purpose of milking Medicare.

Hospitals under attack -- by the FBI

Read the article from the LA Times here

COMMENT:

My only concern with this story is that the investigation was begun a couple of years ago by Rocky Delgadillo, the hell-bent LA prosecutor whose visions of grandeur are equaled only by his thirst for power and publicity. You may remember Delgadillo as the bumbling prosecutor who insisted on putting Paris Hilton behind bars for a low level “crime.” Despite his public rantings about how everyone deserved to do the same time for the same crime, he was at a rare loss for words to explain how his own wife somehow managed to skirt jail time for the same crime Ms. Hilton was serving time for.

Nevertheless, the feds are involved (FBI investigation) so this one should prove interesting.

But is it not amazing how stupid people can be? Why spend so much time and effort trying to think up clever new ways to rip off the government?

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