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USA. Addiction Specialist Charged in $681 Million Treatment Fraud Case
USA. Addiction Specialist Charged in $681 Million Treatment Fraud Case
The federal government has charged a Florida addiction medicine specialist in what it says was a scheme to defraud Medicare and private insurers, charging them roughly $681 million over about a decade for lab tests, office visits, therapy sessions, and other services that were either unnecessary or never delivered. (Medscape Medical News, USA, 03.08.2020)