In South Florida, there are 20 times as many durable medical equipment suppliers as McDonald’s franchises. Federal officials recently halted payments to 900 suspicious hospice providers in Los Angeles, more than all hospice operations in the state of Texas. In Columbus, Ohio, there were 94 home-health companies operating out of a single building, bilking Medicaid for tens of millions of dollars.
Medicare and Medicaid have become open cash registers for criminal enterprises. As we speak, taxpayers are being charged for equipment never delivered, services never performed, and treatments patients never needed.
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