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Exposing Healthcare Fraud with Jonathan Tycko| E. 68

Vie Healthcare

And as you know, obviously a huge percentage of healthcare spending is funded through Medicare, Medicaid, Tricare, the VA system, and these are all programs that are covered by the False Claims Act. I mean, you can put good people… It’s what we see with all the nursing shortages right now.

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Sick Profit: Investigating Private Equity’s Stealthy Takeover of Health Care Across Cities and Specialties

KHN

The pain clinics also overcharged Medicare by billing up to $1,100 for “unnecessary and often worthless” back braces and charging up to $1,800 each for urine drug tests that were “medically unnecessary and often worthless,” according to the suit.

Doctors 145
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Sick Profit: Investigating Private Equity’s Stealthy Takeover of Health Care Across Cities and Specialties

KHN

The pain clinics also overcharged Medicare by billing up to $1,100 for “unnecessary and often worthless” back braces and charging up to $1,800 each for urine drug tests that were “medically unnecessary and often worthless,” according to the suit.

Doctors 52