Trying to get a hold on the new massive roundup of health care crooks is like trying in any real sense to comprehend the size of the universe. Hundreds of criminals, billions of stolen dollars, all over the country and the world… So we will focus on only one miscreant, a young white male registered Republican who lived (pre-forfeit) in a massive McMansion in a gated equestrian community in Florida.
Florida of course being the global epicenter of Medicare Medicaid Mediwhatever’sleftoverafterMedicareandMedicaidfraud fraud.
Sean Alterman ran a
$52 million scheme to bill Medicare for medically unnecessary genetic testing. As alleged in the information, Alterman owned two laboratories through which he billed Medicare for doctors’ orders that he procured through kickbacks. Specifically, he paid call center operators to generate the orders by running deceptive telemarketing campaigns to persuade the Medicare beneficiaries to agree to the tests. The call centers then would “doctor chase” the beneficiaries’ physicians to sign orders for the tests by sending them faxes containing false, fraudulent, and misleading representations designed to induce them into ordering the tests.
Buhblahbuhblahbuhblah much more where that came from but you get the general idea. What’s poignant is that this crook, who lived a ghost life, hiding always his dark larcenous self from the sunny legit world of horses and golfcarts, has had to forfeit (wait for it) his Rolls Royce Ghost.
