WASHINGTON, Jan. 27 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The owner and operator of a Los Angeles durable medical equipment (DME) company pleaded guilty today to submitting nearly $1 million in false claims to Medicare, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A.

The Los Angeles Times: "The two former owners of City of Angels Medical Center will pay $10 million as part of a consent judgment over allegations that they performed unnecessary medical work on homeless people recruited from skid row shelters as part of a Medicare fraud scheme." Authorities alleged that the center would charge the government for the treatments (Grad, 1/26). KTLA News reports on ...

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This is the latest news as of January 28th.

"The owner and operator of a Los Angeles durable medical equipment (DME) company pleaded guilty today to submitting nearly $1 million in false claims to Medicare, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division and Acting U.S. Attorney George S. Cardona for the Central District of California."

I'll post more if I find anything else out.

I heard about this and just found this story.

"A Miami man who used his chain of Medicare clinics to commit fraud and exported the business to other Southern states was sentenced in federal court Wednesday to 22 years in prison."

This one's for Kelly, I know she is reading.

"Higher Medicare copays, sometimes just a few dollars more, led to fewer doctor visits and to more and longer hospital stays, a new study found."

My friend, Gene,told me about this.

"Five New Jersey hospitals, including Hackensack University Medical Center and Clara Maass Medical Center in Essex County, are ranked among the top 5 percent of hospitals nationwide, based on their care of Medicare patients, according to a private rating service."

Here is an intersting one:

"A Miami man who used his chain of Medicare clinics to commit fraud and exported the business to other Southern states was sentenced to 22 years in prison Wednesday."

I saw this posted Thursday on WWW.YOUTUBE.COM.

My mother said she heard this on the radio.

she wants to know what you think.