The Justice Department charged 15 defendants, among them six medical professionals, in Southern California healthcare fraud schemes that collectively billed roughly $2 billion, including the largest substance-abuse treatment fraud case the department has ever prosecuted.
\n\nThe charges, announced by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California, span sham addiction treatment, unnecessary artery surgeries, bogus hospice enrollments, and a nearly $270 million scheme to defraud Medi-Cal, California’s Medicaid program. Eight defendants were arrested, with five of them expected to appear in federal court in downtown Los Angeles.
\n\nAssistant Attorney General Colin McDonald of the Justice Department’s National Fraud Enforcement Division said one of the cases was cracked open by billing data.
\n\nThese charges include the largest sober home fraud scheme the Department has ever prosecuted, and a scheme involving unnecessary invasive procedures that was detected through data analytics. Our message is simple: if you steal health care dollars from the American taxpayer or abuse your position to harm patients, we are coming for you — and the data will lead us to you.
\n\nFather and son David and Nathan Young, who used the aliases “Sancho Lopez” and “Pablo,” controlled dozens of purported treatment companies and directed “body brokers”…
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