Hundreds of employees at a Target distribution hub in Chicago have been fired, news outlets report, after allegedly exploiting a glitch in the company’s health care loan program — costing the retailer more than $1 million. According to Block Club Chicago, the flaw allowed workers to borrow $3,000 and erase the balance after repaying just…
WASHINGTON (AP) — State and federal prosecutors have charged more than 320 people and uncovered nearly $15 million in false claims in what they described Monday as the largest coordinated takedown of health care fraud schemes in Justice Department history. Law enforcement seized more than $245 million in cash, luxury vehicles, cryptocurrency, and other assets…
HOUSTON (WKRC) – A rheumatologist was caught defrauding Medicare and Medicaid by falsely diagnosing people, performing chemotherapy on healthy patients and prescribing unnecessary drugs that caused harm, among other things. Jorge Zamora-Quezada, 68, has been sentenced to 10 years in prison and three years of supervised release for orchestrating a health care fraud scheme involving…